speed of light

1. The speed of electromagnetic radiation, which in a perfect vacuum is equivalent to 299,792,458 metres per second.

   Early physicists developed insightful methods for measuring the speed of light.

   Lichtgeschwindigkeit

   ско́рость све́таskórostʹ svéta

   the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second

2. (colloquial, figuratively)A very rapid speed.

   When her cat figured out that a trip to the vet was in the offing, he took off towards the closet at the speed of light.

3. A rate of travel of a signal equal to one cell per generation, the fastest possible speed in the Moore and von Neumann neighborhoods.

1. He calculated the speed of light.

   ruОн вычислил скорость света. — marafon

   deEr berechnete die Lichtgeschwindigkeit. — al_ex_an_der

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2. Everything happened at the speed of light.

   ruВсё произошло со скоростью света. — marafon

   deAlles passierte mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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3. Can we travel at the speed of light?

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4. Information is moving at the speed of light.

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5. He was driving at the speed of light.

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