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Light year
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(light years) 1. A light year is the distance that light travels in a year. ...a star system millions of light years away. N-COUNT 2. You can say that two things are light years apart to emphasize a very great difference or a very long distance or period of time between them. (INFORMAL) She says the French education system is light years ahead of the English one... N-COUNT: usu pl, N prep/adv c darkgreen]emphasis
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noun Date: 1888 1. a unit of length in astronomy equal to the distance that light travels in one year in a vacuum or about 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers) 2. an extremely large measure of comparison (as of distance, time, or quality) seems like ~s ago has ~s more talent two minutes and yet ~s away from the crowded village — Suzanne Patterson ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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~ n 1 the distance that light travels in one year, about 9,500,000,000,000 kilometres, used for measuring distances between stars 2 also light years plural informal a very long time (It all seems light years ago now.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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