one-way light time

1. 1.

   the elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object

   SynonymsOWLT

   Broaderelapsed time

Questions about one-way light time

What does one-way light time mean?

one-way light time means "the elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object".

What is another word for one-way light time?

Close synonyms include OWLT. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is one-way light time a common word?

one-way light time 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.