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Meaning of "kiloparsec" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF KILOPARSEC

kiloparsec  [ˈkɪləˌpɑːˌsɛk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KILOPARSEC

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Kiloparsec is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KILOPARSEC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

kiloparsec

Parsec

A parsec is an astronomical unit of length used to measure distances to objects outside the Solar System. About 3.26 light-years in length, the parsec is still less than the distance to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, 1.3 parsecs from Earth. Nevertheless, most of the stars visible to the unaided eye in the nighttime sky lie within 500 parsecs of the Sun. The parsec unit was likely first suggested in 1913 by British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner. Named from an abbreviation of the parallax of one arcsecond, it was defined so as to make calculations of astronomical distances quick and easy for astronomers from only their raw observational data. Partly for this reason, it is still the unit preferred in astronomy and astrophysics, though the light year remains prominent in popular science texts and more everyday usage. While parsecs are used for the shorter distances within our galaxy, multiples of parsecs are required for the larger scales in the universe, including kiloparsecs for more distant galactic objects, megaparsecs for the nearer galaxies, and even gigaparsecs for many quasars and the most distant galaxies.

Definition of kiloparsec in the English dictionary

The definition of kiloparsec in the dictionary is a unit used for measuring astronomical distance, equal to 1000 parsecs.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KILOPARSEC


arcsec
ˈɑːksɛk
cosec
ˈkəʊsɛk
cusec
ˈkjuːsɛk
demi-sec
ˌdɛmɪˈsɛk
megaparsec
ˈmɛɡəˌpɑːsɛk
parsec
ˈpɑːˌsɛk
sec
sɛk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KILOPARSEC

kilocurie
kilocycle
kilogauss
kilogram
kilogram calorie
kilogramme
kilogray
kilohertz
kilojoule
kilolitre
kilometre
kilometric
kilometrical
kilomole
kilopascal
kilorad
kiloton
kilovolt
kilowatt
kilowatt-hour

WORDS THAT END LIKE KILOPARSEC

alec
Aztec
codec
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Lautrec
Liberec
Malbec
Mixtec
on spec
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Quebec
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Toulouse-Lautrec

Synonyms and antonyms of kiloparsec in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kiloparsec» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KILOPARSEC

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Translator English - Chinese

千秒差距
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kiloparsec
570 millions of speakers

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kiloparsec
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kiloparsec
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كيلوبارسيك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кпс
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

kiloparsec
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

kiloparsec
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kiloparsec
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Translator English - Malay

Kiloparsec
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Translator English - German

Kiloparsec
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キロパーセク
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

kiloparsec
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kiloparsec
85 millions of speakers
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kiloparsec
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Translator English - Tamil

kiloparsec
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Translator English - Marathi

किलपारसेक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kiloparsec
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kiloparsec
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kiloparsec
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кпс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kiloparsec
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kiloparsec
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kiloparsec
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kiloparsec
10 millions of speakers
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kiloparsec
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kiloparsec

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOPARSEC»

The term «kiloparsec» is normally little used and occupies the 142.414 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOPARSEC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kiloparsec

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KILOPARSEC»

Discover the use of kiloparsec in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kiloparsec and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Kiloparsec-Scale Structure and Kinematics of ...
Further, we present a sample of 13 galaxies observed with the OSIRIS integral field spectrograph and the Keck laser-guide star adaptive optics system which demonstrate the prevalence of high velocity dispersions 80 km/s and generally little ...
David R. Law, 2008
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Central kiloparsec of starbursts and AGN
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Johan Hendrik Knapen, 2001
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Extended Shocks Within One Kiloparsec: Instrumentation and ...
I present my thesis work on two instruments: the design of the WHIP far-ultraviolet sounding rocket mission, and installation and calibration efforts for the NIC-FPS instrument Fabry-Perot etalon.
Nathaniel J.. Cunningham, 2006
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Multi-wavelength Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei on Parsec ...
With this is mind, I obtained additional observations for 8 of the 40 AGN, this time at 12+15+22+24+43 GHz, chosen in such a way that we should be able to discern between various possible scenarios.
Juan Carlos Algaba, 2010
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Jets From Young Stars V: High Performance Computing and ...
They are ultimately connected to accretion processes at the center of the radio galaxies, which harbor massive black holes. The jet lengths range from parsec to few hundreds of kiloparsec distances and their radio images form direct evidence  ...
José Gracia, Fabio de Colle, Turlough Downes, 2009
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Dawn of the Universe
It could have travelled at most a distance of around fifty thousand light years, or around fifteen kiloparsec. We must however remember that the corresponding redshift of the Universe was about ten thousand. The Universe has expanded by a ...
B. B. Nath
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An Introduction to Radio Astronomy
As we shall see in Chapter 11, supernova explosions may be an important source of energy in the ionized gas whichextends more than one kiloparsec from the plane, and the effects of an individual explosion may last as long as 106 yr.
Bernard F. Burke, Francis Graham-Smith, 2010
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The Role of VLBI in Astrophysics, Astrometry and Geodesy
KILOPARSEC–SCALE PROPERTIES At radio wavelengths, these objects are usually characterised by a strong and compact component on the arcsecond ( kiloparsec) scale. Interferomet- ric high sensitivity images for a wealth of compact flat ...
Franco Mantovani, Andrzej Kus, 2006
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How does the Galaxy work?: A Galactic Tertulia with Don Cox ...
GAS INFLOW IN SPIRAL GALAXIES FROM KILOPARSEC TO PARSEC SCALE W. Maciejewski1,2 1 Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy 2Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, Poland Abstract I briefly review ...
E. J. Alfaro, Enrique Pérez, José Franco, 2006
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Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics
For lobes, α ≈ 1.0, and kiloparsec jets have α ≈ 0.65, while core dominated quasars generally have radio core spectral indices of α < 0.5 (in the frequency band 1–5GHz). The spectral flux of the radio core typically turns over (steepens) ...
Brian Punsly, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KILOPARSEC»

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Hubble Focuses on Extragalactic Jet
A kiloparsec-scale internal shock collision in the jet of a nearby radio galaxy. Nature 521, 495–497; doi: 10.1038/nature14481. Published in. «Sci-News.com, May 15»
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Stunned astronomers discover 50000 bonus light-years in our galaxy
... one kiloparsec equals 3,262 light-years) from the Sun, another south of the plane at four to six kpc, another (corresponding to the Monoceros ... «The Space Reporter, Mar 15»
3
Stars Reveal Hidden Galaxy
[Sukanya Chakrabarti et al, Clustered Cepheid Variables 90 kiloparsec from the Galactic Center] Dwarf galaxies like this one are thought to ... «Scientific American, Feb 15»
4
Small-scale challenges to the cold dark matter model
Prior to 2000, only nine dwarf galaxies were known at the 250 kiloparsec virial radius of the Milky Way halo; researchers had predicted on the ... «Phys.Org, Feb 15»
5
Dark Matter Hunters Suspect They've Found 'Galaxy X'
In addition to Chakrabarti, the authors of "Clustered Cepheid Variables 90 Kiloparsec From the Galactic Center" include Roberto Saito, Alice ... «NBCNews.com, Feb 15»
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Baby monster galaxy spotted in the early Universe
GOODS has an effective radius of about one kiloparsec, a size consistent with a forming galactic core. Other galaxies with similar sizes have ... «Ars Technica, Sep 14»
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3D map shows dusty structure of the Milky Way
Detail from map at 9000 light years (3 kiloparsec). The map is coloured according to how much dust lies in each direction in the northern Milky ... «Phys.Org, Jun 14»
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Helium-burning binary stars give us a new tape measure for the …
(One kiloparsec is a thousand parsecs, or roughly 3,300 light-years.) That accuracy is about 2.2 percent, a vast improvement over previous ... «Ars Technica, Mar 13»
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Mayan Apocalypse Myth And New Age Degeneracy
... area spanning approximately 8.3 parsec with an observational variation, in any direction, of about 0.33 kiloparsec (1075 light years distance). «The Market Oracle, Dec 12»
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Galaxy formation: The new Milky Way
... spherical halo several hundred kiloparsecs (1 kiloparsec is about 3,200 light-years) across, with a mass of about 1012 times that of the Sun, ... «Nature.com, Oct 12»

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