Meaning Of The Word Light year

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What's The Definition Of Light year?

light year
countable noun: A light year is the distance that light travels in a year.

light year in British English
a unit of distance equal to the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year, c. 9,460,000,000,000 km (5,880,000,000,000 mi)
noun: a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to the distance travelled by light in one year, i. e. 9.4607 × 1012 kilometres or 0.3066 parsecs

light-year in American English
noun: the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances

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