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Definition

n a unit of distance; usually used to measure the distance to a star; equal to 206;265 astronomical units 3.0857 x 10 kilometers or 1.92 x 10 miles or 3.2616 light years

Example Sentence

It would take more than seventy parsecs to reach the nearest star.

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