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siriometer

The English word “siriometer” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A unit of distance equal to one million astronomical units or 15.813 light-years.

Etymology

From Sirius + -o- + meter. It is roughly twice the distance from Earth to the star Sirius.

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