A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years.
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Examples for "parsec"
Examples for "parsec"
1I rather like that part about not knowing a parsec from a parsnip.
2Weaver painstakingly brought it back; and so, in parsec-long zigzags, he held his course.
3They'll get you before you've gone a parsec in space.
4But, as Admiral Hornmeyer is fond of saying, I don't know a parsec from a parsnip.