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light year
noun
(light-year)
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)
light year
noun
(light-year)
an extremely large measure of comparison (as of distance, time, or quality)
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