Unit of length used to express astronomical distances, defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
Astronomical unit of length equal to the distance light travels in a vacuum in one year.
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Examples for "lightyear"
Examples for "lightyear"
1The open-ended nature of the buying smacks of Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear.
2Under the transaction, the Chain and Lightyear brands will be retired.
3Members of the team now form the core of Lightyear.
4Some toy company did a lot of inventing to come up with Buzz Lightyear.
5A Lightyear spokesman did not return a request for comment.
1Note that the Centauris are the only stars inside the five-light-year sphere.
2By your figuring, we shouldn't be yet one light-year on the way.
3A light-year measures distance in space and equals 6 trillion miles.
4That expedition perished after less than a light-year when its hydroponics system failed.
5Instead we use the light-year, which is the distance light travels in a year.
6A light-year is about 6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year.
7Just a light-year will suffice, the direction is not important.
8The noises from the freeway above and to my right seemed a light-year away.
9Our task was easy, because we were about half a light-year from the sun.
10Captain, we're a full light-year outside the Klingon Neutral Zone.
11The slim ultradrive ship dropped out of hyperspace half a light-year out from Ellezelin.
12One could imagine falling forty-two thousand miles, where one couldn't imagine falling a light-year.
13The desperate twenty-one light-year swallow had stretched Vermuden's energy loading capacity virtually to breaking point.
14Then it hopped another half light-year, and so on.
15It might as well have been a light-year away.
16You were about right for distance, and within a few tenths of a light-year laterally.
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