Neither. It's a general term as it is used for that lamp. Lumen specifies how bright that lamp will appear to the human eye. Peak sensitivity occurs in the green yellowish portion of the spectrum at 555 nanometers wavelength to be specific. A lamp outputting in that region will look bright to us but not plants.
For lumen/PAR/ lighting intensity to have any meaning, a light source would have to state how many lumens it emits at all PAR wavelengths. It's usually not done that way. Units known as Micromoles are used. PAR and lumen is well defined within this forum and the web. Just do a search. Neither term is too complicated to grasp.
For lumen/PAR/ lighting intensity to have any meaning, a light source would have to state how many lumens it emits at all PAR wavelengths. It's usually not done that way. Units known as Micromoles are used. PAR and lumen is well defined within this forum and the web. Just do a search. Neither term is too complicated to grasp.