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Astronomical Unit AU 1 AU 1AU astronomic unit

A unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers) WordNet 3.0

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A unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The astronomical unit is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun and approximately equal to 150 million kilometres or 8.3 light-minutes. Wikipedia

A unit of length roughly between the Earth and the Sun Wikipedia Disambiguation

Mean distance between Earth and the Sun, common length reference in astronomy Wikidata

The average Earth-Sun distance, equal to 149.5 million kilometers or 93 million miles. OmegaWiki

149,597,870,700 metres, the approximate mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit), (symbol AU), used to measure distances in the solar system. Wiktionary

Measure of distance. Wiktionary (translation)

IS A

astronomy unit

non-SI unit mentioned in the SI

unit eeeof length

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Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

Internetowa encyklopedia PWN

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length

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Astronomical Unit, AU