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Luma vs Lum - What's the difference?

luma | lum |

As nouns the difference between luma and lum

is that luma is currency unit of Armenia, worth one hundredth of an Armenian dram while lum is a chimney.

luma

English

(wikipedia)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (currency) currency unit of Armenia, worth one hundredth of an Armenian dram

    • Etymology 2

    (luminance)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The brightness in an image, as opposed to the saturation or chroma.

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    lum

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A chimney.
    • (Robert Burns)
  • * 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 277:
    • they cleared the Manse and went up by the Mains, with the smell of the dung from its hot cattle-court, and the smell of the burning wood in its lums .
  • (Scotland, northern England) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
  • (Scotland, northern England) A woody valley.
  • (Scotland, northern England) A deep pool.

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