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light year

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Definition of light year

noun

Astronomy
  • a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 1012 km (nearly 6 trillion miles).
  • (light years) informal a long distance or great amount:the new range puts them light years ahead of the competition

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