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The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; - used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Light Year'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/light-year.html. 1828.
 
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