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LIGHT TIME
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves)
Example:
the light time from Jupiter to the sun is approximately 43 minutes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("light time" is a kind of...):
distance; length (size of the gap between two places)