Light-second
unit of length From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A light-second is a unit of length equal to the distance light in empty space travels in one second, and is exactly 299,792,458 meters.[1]
The light-second is used in telecommunications, astronomy, and physics. In telecommunications, it measures how much time it must take to send a signal a certain distance.
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