lumen

The unit of luminous flux in SI. Symbol, lm. One lumen is the luminous flux emitted within a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source with an intensity of 1 candela. In terms of base units, the dimensions of the lumen are candela × steradian.

The lumen existed with other definitions prior to SI.1

A typical use for the lumen is to describe how much light ordinary household light bulbs give off.  The packaging usually gives the bulb's light output in lumens; a new 75-watt incandescent bulb puts out about 1,180 lumens.

1.
Parry Moon.
System of photometer concepts.
Journal of the Optical Society of America, volume 32, number 6 (June 1942).

Page 355: “The lumen was proposed by Blondel in 1894 and is now universally accepted.”

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