Lightspeed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lightspeed is a noun meaning The speed of light (in vacuum unless another medium is specified).
Meaning
The speed of light (in vacuum unless another medium is specified).
More Meanings
- (colloquial, figurative) An extremely fast speed.
Example Sentences
He paused, then finished, “with the drive from the Linz, he can do over 500 lightspeeds to meet us.
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.
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 you prefer) use it.
Word Forms
- lightspeeds
- light speed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include luxon, rapidity, subspace, wavespeed, kilolight, lambda.
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