light minute

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   the distance light travels in a vacuum in one minute; approximately 18 million kilometers

   Broaderastronomy unit

   Part oflight year

Questions about light minute

What does light minute mean?

light minute means "the distance light travels in a vacuum in one minute; approximately 18 million kilometers".

Is light minute a common word?

light minute is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.