Definition of Microlux

1. a unit of illumination [n -LUXES or -LUCES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microlux

microlites
microlith
microlithiasis
microlithic
microlithography
microliths
microlitre
microlitres
microlitter
microloan
microloans
micrologic
micrological
micrology
microluces
microlux (current term)
microluxes
micromachine
micromachined
micromachines
micromachining
micromachinings
micromagnetic
micromagnetics
micromagnetism
micromainframe
micromainframes
micromanage
micromanaged
micromanagement

Literary usage of Microlux

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Camera by Columbia Photographic Society, Philadelphia (1916)
"So with the most recent selenium-cells light quantities as small as 0.01 milli-microlux can be identified, while the sharpest eye can only distinguish ..."

2. The New Science of the Fundamental Physics by William Walker Strong (1918)
"The limit of visibility to the eye is about a sixth magnitude star or about 0.003 microlux while a surface becomes invisible when its luminosity is less ..."

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