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subluminary

subluminary adjective: slower than the speed of light.

Adjective

subluminary (not comparable)

  1. Slower than the speed of light.
    • The only consolation in their taking the Kator was that the ship was set at doing slow sub-luminary speeds.2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 34

Antonyms of subluminary

Origin of subluminary

From sub- + luminary.

Questions about subluminary

What does subluminary mean?
Subluminary means slower than the speed of light.
What part of speech is subluminary?
Subluminary is an adjective.

Words near subluminary in the dictionary

  1. sublumbar
  2. sublumic
  3. subluminal
  4. subluminality
  5. subluminally
  6. subluminary
  7. subluminous
  8. sublunar
  9. sublunarean
  10. sublunarian
  11. sublunaries

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