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nox

The English word “nox” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night.
  2. millilux (unit of illuminance)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nok⁽ʷ⁾ts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

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