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LIGHT TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does light time mean? 

LIGHT TIME (noun)
  The noun LIGHT TIME has 1 sense:

1. distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves)play

  Familiarity information: LIGHT TIME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIGHT TIME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the light time from Jupiter to the sun is approximately 43 minutes

Hypernyms ("light time" is a kind of...):

distance; length (size of the gap between two places)


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