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)

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