lightspeed
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lightspeed
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From light + speed.
noun lightspeeds · light speed
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The speed of light (in vacuum unless another medium is specified).
If we're going to a world a hundred light-years from here at near lightspeed, we spend according to our own perceptions, only a few minutes doing so and arrive only a few minutes older.
Similar: speed of light
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An extremely fast speed.
In recent years, other activist terms have followed light-speed trajectories. The term “Latinx” overtook academic institutions and briefly became fashionable in the media, still prevalent in some influential publications, like The New Yorker, even though only 3 percent of Hispanics (or Latinos, if y
Similar: speed of light
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noun the speed of light
| Español | velocidad de la luz, velocidad lumínica |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 광속 gwangsok |
| 日本語 | 光速 kōsoku |
| 中文 | 光速 guāngsù |
| Português | velocidade da luz |
| Français | vitesse de la lumière |
| Deutsch | Lichtgeschwindigkeit |
| Italiano | velocità della luce |
| Ελληνικά | ταχύτητα του φωτός tachýtita tou fotós |
| Română | viteza luminii |
| Русский | ско́рость све́та skórostʹ svéta |
| Tiếng Việt | tốc độ ánh sáng |
| العربية | سُرْعَةْ اَلضَّوْء surʕat aḍ-ḍawʔ |
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