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light hour

 

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Noun light hour has 1 sense
  1. light hour - the distance light travels in a vacuum in one hour; approximately one billion kilometers
    --1 is a kind of
    astronomy unit
    --1 is a part of light year

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Light Hour

Part of Speech: Noun

Sense 1: A unit of length traveled by light in one hour, equal to approximately 1.079 billion kilometers or 670.61 million miles.

Usage: In space exploration and astronomy, the light hour is often used to measure vast distances between celestial bodies.

Example Sentence 1: The distance between the Sun and Neptune is about 4.1 light hours.

Example Sentence 2: It would take light approximately 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel one light hour.

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