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light-year
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun light-year has 1 sense
- light-year(n = noun.quantity) light year - the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers; Array is a kind of astronomy unit
has parts: light hour, light minute, light second
CIDE DICTIONARY
light-year,
- The distance over which light can travel in a year's time in a vacuum, 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers); -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun. The star nearest to the earth's sun is about 4 light years distant. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- a very large difference; -- used figuratively to express great differences (of distance, quality, time) in comparisons. [PJC]
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