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词汇 light-year
释义 light year
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈlaɪt ˌjɪər/ us /ˈlaɪt ˌjɪr/
the distance that light travels in one year (about 9.5 million million kilometres)光年(指光1年走过的距离,约为9.5兆公里)
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light year | American Dictionary


light year
noun[ C ]
us/ˈlɑɪt ˌyɪər/
earth science
the great distance that light travels in one year; about 5,880,000,000,000 miles or 9,460,000,000,000 kilometers
earth science
People sometimes say light years to talk about an extremely long distance or time:
When I was a young man, being 50 seemed light years away.

Examples of light year


light year
The year 1921 was an exceptionally lightyear for sickness, and many actuaries regarded it as an abnormally lightyear.
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In a lightyear a ray of light travels 6 trillion miles, but we do not want to go into that.
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When they come within one lightyear of one another, they will emit gravitational waves that will radiate further orbital energy until they merge completely.
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In some cases, specialized units are used, such as the astronomer's parsec and lightyear or the particle physicist's barn.
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It would need about 17,565 years at this speed to travel a complete lightyear.
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This was coherent with the estimation made by astronomers in 1938, but after some additional measurement, this distance was re-estimated at 14.3 lightyear.
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Along its longest visible dimension, it thus measures about 13 3 lightyear across.
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This is equivalent to moving a distance of one lightyear every 14,700 years.
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The distance to this star has been measured directly using the parallax method, which places it away with a margin of error of about a lightyear.
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The nearest other intelligent life form must be roughly 10 billion light years away.
Partly for this reason, it is still the unit preferred in astronomy and astrophysics, though the lightyear remains prominent in popular science texts and more everyday usage.
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If this acceleration were to continue forever at its present rate, our descendants could devour only the region currently within about 10 billion light years.
However, if the player happened to find a system 655.36 to 670.36 light years away, it would be counted by the game as within the 15 lightyear range.
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Their results indicate that the bar is 27 000 light years long.
Our standards of training are already light years ahead of those in almost every private security company.
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