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light speednounAlternative form of lightspeed. [The speed of light (in vacuum unless another medium is specified).]
lightspeed lagnounA delay in communications or information processing caused by a signal propagation being limited by the speed of light.
luxonnoun(physics) Any particle that travels at exactly the speed of light and has zero mass: typically a photon.
light secondnoun(astronomy, physics) A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one second: about 300 megameters
rapiditynounspeed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
speed of lightnoun(physics) The speed of electromagnetic radiation, which in a perfect vacuum is equivalent to 299,792,458 metres per second.
light barriernounThe speed of light, seen as a barrier to faster-than-light travel.
warp speednoun(by extension, informal) Any very fast speed.
light equationnoun(astronomy) The time which light takes to traverse the mean distance of the Earth from the Sun.
path lengthnoun(graph theory) The number of edges traversed in a given path in a graph.
subspacenoun(countable, mathematics) A subset of a space which is a space in its own right.
wavespeednounThe speed/velocity of a wave.
kilolightnoun(science fiction) a unit of distance equal to one thousand light-years; a kilolight-year
planck velocitynoun(physics) The Planck speed.
lambdanoun(physics, mathematics) Unit representation of wavelength.
lightfrontnoun(physics) The set of photons in the same phase of a pulse of (especially laser) light.
speednounThe state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
speed of soundnoun(physics) The speed at which sound is propagated through some medium under specified conditions.
lightnoun(physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
phase velocitynoun(physics) The velocity of propagation of a pure sine wave of infinite extent and infinitesimal amplitude.

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