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Light year

Light year Meaning & Definition
Light year Definition And Meaning

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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See Also | astronomy unit | light hour | light minute | light second

Light year In Webster's Dictionary

\Light year\ (Astron.) 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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