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ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does round-trip light time mean?
• ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME (noun)
The noun ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME has 1 sense:
1. the elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point
Familiarity information: ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
round-trip light time; RTLT
Hypernyms ("round-trip light time" is a kind of...):
elapsed time (the time that elapses while some event is occurring)
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