About The Word Light year
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Light year
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What's The Definition Of Light year?
[n] the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers
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The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; --
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.
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