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Lux
The lux (symbol lx), also called the lumen per square meter, is the SI derived unit of illuminance, weighted by the sensitivity of the human eye.
Lux (Doctor Who)
Lux is a 2025 Doctor Who episode (season 2, episode 2), written by Russell T Davies and directed by Amanda Brotchie, in which the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda fight Mr Ring-a-Ding, a 1930s cartoon god of light, in 1952 Miami; distinct from the LUX dark-matter experiment and the Lux family of Silence in the Library.
Lux (Rosalía album)
Lux (Latin for "light") is the fourth studio album by Rosalía, released November 7, 2025 on Columbia Records: a four-movement orchestral song cycle inspired by female saints, sung in 13 languages with Björk, Carminho, and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Lux (soap)
Lux (soap): Unilever's global beauty soap brand, begun as Lux Flakes in 1900, launched as Lux Toilet Soap in 1925, sold in over 100 countries, famed for filmstar endorsements.
Lux Æterna (film)
Lux Æterna (film): 2019 French medium-length film by Gaspar Noé, a Saint Laurent SELF04 commission starring Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg as themselves in a split-screen meta-movie about a chaotic witch-film shoot, premiered at Cannes 2019.
Lux Interior
Lux Interior (Erick Lee Purkhiser, 1946-2009) was the American singer who co-founded the horror-punk band the Cramps with his wife Poison Ivy in New York in 1976, pioneering psychobilly.
Lux Pascal
Lux Pascal (born 1992), formerly Lucas Balmaceda, is a Chilean-American transgender actress, Juilliard MFA graduate (2023), sister of Pedro Pascal, known for Narcos, La Jauría, and her lead in Miss Carbón (2025).
Lux Total Opportunities, L.P.
Lux Total Opportunities, L.P. is an $800 million later-stage venture fund raised in 2021 by Lux Capital, the New York frontier-technology firm led by Peter Hebert and Josh Wolfe.
Lux Tour
LUX TOUR 2026 is Rosalía's arena world tour supporting her album LUX, announced December 2025 by Live Nation: 42-plus shows in 17 countries, opening March 16, 2026 in Lyon, closing in Miami in September 2026. Distinct from the unrelated BMW/Réseau LUX photography tour.
Lux Ventures
Lux Ventures is the flagship early-stage fund series of Lux Capital, a New York venture firm founded in 2000 by Josh Wolfe and Peter Hebert to back deep-tech startups.
LUX-ZEPLIN
LUX-ZEPLIN, formed from the LUX and ZEPLIN experiments, is a dark matter detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota whose 7-tonne liquid xenon target has set the most stringent limits on WIMP scattering.
Luxair
Luxair, legally Société Luxembourgeoise de Navigation Aérienne, is the national airline of Luxembourg. Founded in 1961, it flies from Luxembourg Airport and carried over 2.6 million passengers in 2024.
Luxating patella
Luxating patella (patellar luxation) is displacement of the kneecap from the femoral trochlear groove, mainly in small-breed dogs, graded 1 to 4, treated conservatively or with trochleoplasty and tibial tuberosity transposition.
LUXE experiment
LUXE, the Laser Und XFEL Experiment, is a planned particle physics experiment at DESY in Hamburg that will collide 16.5 GeV electron beams with a powerful optical laser to study strong-field quantum electrodynamics.
Luxe Listings Sydney
Luxe Listings Sydney is an Australian Prime Video reality series (2021-2022, 3 seasons, 18 episodes) following agents Gavin Rubinstein, D'Leanne Lewis, and Simon Cohen in Sydney's luxury property market; distinct from the realestate.com.au Luxe listing ad product.
Luxe.tv
LUXE.TV is a Luxembourg-based television channel founded in June 2006 by Jean Stock and Jean-Baptiste Stock, owned by Opuntia S.A., dedicated 24/7 to luxury and art de vivre in French and English, broadcasting in over 65 countries.
Luxeed R7 (智界)
The Luxeed R7 (智界 R7) is a mid-size electric coupe SUV from Chery and Huawei, launched in China in 2024 as a Tesla Model Y rival.
Luxeed V9
The Luxeed V9 (智界V9) is a full-size luxury MPV built by Chery under the Luxeed brand, a venture with Huawei's HIMA, launched in May 2026.
Luxembourg
Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a constitutional monarchy between Belgium, Germany, and France with 690,959 people, three official languages, Grand Duke Guillaume, and a financial sector generating about a quarter of GDP.
Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial
Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, in Hamm near Luxembourg City, is an ABMC World War II cemetery with 5,076 American graves, mostly Battle of the Bulge casualties, and the grave of General George S. Patton, Jr., dedicated July 4, 1960.
Luxembourg Armed Forces
Luxembourg Armed Forces (Armée luxembourgeoise): the Grand Duchy's all-volunteer military, smallest NATO army at about 1,000 personnel; conscription abolished 29 June 1967; founding NATO member with missions at home and abroad.
Luxembourg City
Luxembourg City (Lëtzebuerg), capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg at the Alzette-Pétrusse confluence; medieval fortress dismantled after 1867, UNESCO World Heritage since 1994, EU institutional seat with 137,696 residents.
Luxembourg Crisis
The Luxembourg Crisis was a Franco-Prussian diplomatic confrontation of 1867 over France's attempted purchase of Luxembourg, resolved peacefully by the Treaty of London of 11 May 1867.
Luxembourg franc
The Luxembourg franc was Luxembourg's currency until the euro replaced it in 2002 at 40.3399 francs to the euro, tied to the Belgian franc for most of its existence.
Luxembourg national football team
Luxembourg national football team, the Red Lions (Équipe du Luxembourg de football), Luxembourg's men's international team run by the FLF; best run the 1964 European Championship quarter-final, FIFA ranking up from 195th to 82nd since 2006.
Luxembourg Palace
The Luxembourg Palace (Palais du Luxembourg) is a 17th-century palace in Paris, built for Marie de Médicis by Salomon de Brosse and home of the French Senate since 1799.
Luxembourg Stock Exchange
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE, Bourse de Luxembourg) is a securities exchange in Luxembourg, created in 1928 and specialized in listing international debt securities and sustainable finance instruments.
Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch) is the national language of Luxembourg, a West Germanic Ausbau language from Moselle Franconian dialects with heavy French vocabulary. National language since the 1984 law; in the 2021 census the main language of 48.9% of residents.
Luxeuil Abbey
Luxeuil Abbey (Abbaye de Luxeuil), founded c. 590 by Irish monk Saint Columbanus at Luxeuil-les-Bains, France, on Roman Luxovium; a cradle of Western monasticism with a famed scriptorium, 600 monks by the mid-7th century, and 2005 finds of its Merovingian Saint-Martin church.
Luxgen n7
The Luxgen n7, developed as the Foxtron Model C, is a battery-electric mid-size crossover SUV built by Yulon Motor in Taiwan, credited as the first domestically produced electric passenger car made there.