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ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point
Synonyms:
round-trip light time; RTLT
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("round-trip light time" is a kind of...):
elapsed time (the time that elapses while some event is occurring)