speed of light
短语[医] 光速
发音
US
词形变化
speeds of light
复数
speeds of light
abbreviation c
复数
别名
c
SOL
释义与例句
n.
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1.
The speed of electromagnetic radiation, which in a perfect vacuum is equivalent to 299,792,458 metres per second.
光速
物理Early physicists developed insightful methods for measuring the speed of light.
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2.
A very rapid speed.
非正式 比喻When her cat figured out that a trip to the vet was in the offing, he took off towards the closet at the speed of light.
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3.
A rate of travel of a signal equal to one cell per generation, the fastest possible speed in the Moore and von Neumann neighborhoods.
计算机 工程 数学In a single generation, a cell can only influence its nearest neighbours, and so the speed of light (by analogy with the speed of light in physics) is the maximum rate at which information can propagate.