Associations to the word «Parsec»

Wiktionary

PARSEC, noun. (astronomy) (metrology) parallax second

Dictionary definition

PARSEC, noun. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope