lightspeed

English

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• light speed

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Noun

lightspeed (uncountable)

1. The speed of light.

   • 1994 - Ursula K. Le Guin, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea. Victor Gollancz (UK), 1996. ISBN 0575602392. Page 7.

     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.

Translations

the speed of light

Albanian: shpejtësia e dritës (sq) Breton: tizh al luc'h Danish: lysets hastighed (da) Dutch: snelheid van het licht (nl) f. Esperanto: lumrapido (eo) Estonian: valguse kiirus (et) Finnish: valonnopeus (fi) French: vitesse de la lumière (fr) f. German: Lichtgeschwindigkeit (de) f. Greek: ταχύτητα του φωτός (el) (takhítita tu fotós) f. Hungarian: fénysebesség (hu) Icelandic: ljóshraði (is) Italian: velocità della luce (it) f.

Japanese: 光速 (ja) (こうそく, kōsoku) Latin: velocitas luminis (la) f. Latvian: gaismas ātrums (lv) Lithuanian: šviesos greitis (lt) m. Portuguese: velocidade da luz (pt) f. Russian: скорость света (ru) f. Spanish: velocidad de la luz (es) f. Swedish: ljushastighet (sv) c. (def singular), ljusets hastighet (sv) c. Turkish: ışık hızı (tr) f.