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    lm
    lumen; lumens.
  • LM
    LM
    lunar module.
  • L.M.
    L.M.
    abbreviation
    Licentiate in Medicine.

lm

1 American  
Optics.
  1. lumen; lumens.


LM 2 American  
[lem] / lɛm /
  1. lunar module.


L.M. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Licentiate in Medicine.

  2. Licentiate in Midwifery.

  3. Lord Mayor.


lm British  

symbol

  1. lumen

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I just wanted to say that lm still very sorry and I hope your getting better.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Put 1 under cd, over efg, under h, over ijk and under lm.

From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Miller, Hugo H.

A microscope rigidly attached to the carriage holding the piece, lm, would serve to compare, and a diamond attached to the same piece would be used to produce copies.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

Larva of Platygaster in the second stage.—mo, mouth; slkf, œsophagus; gsae, supra-œsophagal ganglion; lm, muscles; bsm, nervous system; gagh, rudiments of the reproductive glands.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Lubbock, John, Sir

The piece, lm, is then moved forward till the fringes again appear at m.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

"There's a lot going on with that little inflatable frog," says LM Bogad, a professor at University of California, Davis and a Guggenheim Fellow who specialises in performance art.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2025

But they performed far better than expected when OpenAI leaked an anonymous version to LM Arena—where people seemed to love it.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 9, 2025

Mike Kimani, an independent trainer who works out of LM Fitness Center in Atwater, says his GLP-1 workouts are particularly data-driven.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2025

Police arrested an Indonesian man identified by his initial as LM, two Ukrainian men identified as IV and MV, and a Russian man identified as KK, during the raids.

From Seattle Times May 13, 2024

At the inferior extremity K of the inner tube, a glass tube is fixed, to which we adopt the Argand lamp LM for burning alkohol, &c.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

In attempting to exit the area, according to the complaint, Agent L.M. opened the rear passenger door of the Border Patrol vehicle where Gomez was seated.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2025

Carl Hollister, president of the Cincinnati-based investment advisory firm L.M.

From Seattle Times Nov. 1, 2023

She wasn’t actually going to the companies with him, but basically, she wrote all of his books for him, sometimes credited as Lillian Gilbreth, sometimes as L.M.

From Scientific American Sep. 21, 2023

Shields declined to discuss the sale price of the course, and L.M.

From Washington Post Aug. 30, 2019

Wallace," he declared, "if you will stick to me until I get so I can do that well half of the time I'll give you a hundred shares of the L.M.

From John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life by Adams, Frederick Upham

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