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Noun Concept
Categories: Concepts in astronomy, Light, Articles with short description, Units of length, All articles containing potentially dated statements
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light year  light-year  lightyear  gigalight-year  Kilolight-year
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The distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers WordNet 3.0
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The distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A light-year, alternatively spelled light year, is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km, which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi. Wikipedia
Distance that light travels through a vacuum in one year. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Unit of length used to express astronomical distances, defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year Wikidata
Astronomical unit of length equal to the distance light travels in a vacuum in one year. OmegaWiki
A unit of length (abbreviation ly; equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (1016 metres)) equal to the distance light travels in one Julian year; used to measure extremely large distances. Wiktionary
IS A
astronomy unit
physical constant
unit eeeof length
non-standard unit
HAS PART
light hour
light minute
light second
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Internetowa encyklopedia PWN
MEASURED PHYSICAL QUANTITY
length
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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light year, light-year
Wikipedia
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light-year
Wikidata
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light-year
Wiktionary
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light year
OmegaWiki
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light-year, lightyear
Wikipedia Redirections
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gigalight-year, Kilolight-year, light-month, Light-Year, light-years, light month, light year, light years, lightyear, lightyears, Megalight-year, Mly
Wikidata Alias
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l.y., light-years, light year, light years, lightyear, lightyears, ly

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