Usually means: Distance from Earth to Sun.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. astronomical unit: Merriam-Webster
  2. astronomical unit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. astronomical unit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. astronomical unit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Astronomical Unit: Vocabulary.com
  6. astronomical unit: Wiktionary
  7. astronomical unit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. astronomical unit: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. astronomical unit: Dictionary.com
  10. Astronomical Unit, Astronomical unit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Astronomical unit: Rhymezone
  12. astronomical unit: FreeDictionary.org
  13. astronomical unit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. astronomical unit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. astronomical unit: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Astronomical Unit: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. astronomical unit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Astronomical Unit: Medical dictionary

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Astronomical Unit: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Mars Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Astronomical Unit: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. astronomical unit: Nine Planets Glossary
  7. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  8. ASTRONOMICAL UNIT: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. JPL Terms (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (astronomical unit)

noun:  (astronomy) 149,597,870,700 metres, the approximate mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit), (symbol AU), used to measure distances in the solar system.

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