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Definition: Light Year |
Light YearNoun1. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Physics | A unit of length used in astronomy which equals the distance light travels in a year. At the rate of 300,000 kilometers per second (671 million miles per hour), 1 light-year is equivalent to 9.46053 1012 km, 5,880,000,000,000 miles or 63,240 AU (see scientific notation). (references) |
Space | The distance light travels in a year. (references) |
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Crosswords: Light Year |
| Specialty definitions using "light year": Caustics ♦ UPWELLING. (references) |
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Screenplays | You mean you got the Galactic Trig to set up an 800 light year transporter beam just because you changed your mind? (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
light year | 100 |
buzz light year | 54 |
kelty light year | 10 |
communication light year | 4 |
buzz light year toy | 4 |
distance light year | 2 |
buzz light year game | 2 |
capital light year | 2 |
definition light year | 2 |
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sierra design light year cd | 2 |
buzz disney light year | 2 |
kelty light year sleeping bag | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "light year"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vit-dritë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سنة ضوئية, سنة جميلة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | светлинна година. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svìtelný rok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | année lumière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lichtjahr (light-year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έτος φωτός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ש ת אור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fényév. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | anno luce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 光年 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うね" (age at one's death, future years, inlater years, old age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightlay yearay tecido leve (loosely woven fabric). (various references) световой год (light-year). (various references) svetlosna godina. (various references) año luz. (various references) ljusår (light-year). (various references) ışık yılı. (various references) світловий рік. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Light Year" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lightyear. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: earthily, heartily, lethargy, litharge, regality, thirlage. | |
-2 letters: alright, earthly, greatly, hyalite, irately, lathery, lathier, lighter, reality, relight, rightly, tearily. | |
-3 letters: aerily, aiglet, aigret, alight, argyle, aright, artily, earthy, eighty, elytra, gaiety, gaiter, gather, gelati, glaire, glairy, gyrate, hailer, halite, halter, hearty, hegari, hegira, hyetal, lather, ligate, lither, lyrate, realty, regilt, retail, retial, righty. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-r-t-y" | |
+3 letters: bigheartedly, farsightedly, hearteningly, shatteringly. | |
+4 letters: copyrightable, hypervigilant, lethargically, nearsightedly, stylographies, threateningly. | |
+5 letters: breathtakingly, dermatoglyphic, earthshakingly, exhilaratingly, heartrendingly, lightheartedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 67 68 74 59 65 61 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01011001 01100101 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i g h t   Y e a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0067 0068 0074 0059 0065 0061 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4675737486259716784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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