"parsec" meaning in English

See parsec in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈpɑɹ.sɛk/ [General-American], /ˈpɑː.sɛk/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-parsec.wav Forms: parsecs [plural]
Etymology: Contraction of parallax second. Etymology templates: {{contraction|en|parallax second}} Contraction of parallax second Head templates: {{en-noun}} parsec (plural parsecs)
  1. (astronomy, metrology) Short for parallax second. Wikipedia link: en:parsec Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: parallax second Categories (topical): Astronomy, Metrology Synonyms: pc, psc [obsolete], second of parallax Related terms: light year Translations (parallax second): فرسخ (farsakh) [masculine] (Arabic), فرسخ فلكي (farsakh falakiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), парсек (parsek) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 秒差距 (miǎochājù) (Chinese Mandarin), parsek [masculine] (Czech), parsec (Dutch), parseko (Esperanto), parsec [masculine] (French), პარსეკი (ṗarseḳi) (Georgian), Parsec [neuter] (German), parszek (Hungarian), parsec [masculine] (Italian), パーセク (pāseku) (Japanese), aazhawigwaashkwani-anang (Northwestern Ojibwa), parsec [masculine] (Portuguese), парсе́к (parsék) [masculine] (Russian), parsec (Spanish), pársec (Spanish), parsek [common-gender] (Swedish), พาร์เซก (Thai), парсе́к (parsék) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.