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Noun: gigaparsec
  1. (cosmology) one billion parsecs; 3.08568 x 10^25m or 3262 billion light years, about 1/14 of the size of the observable universe
    "The most distant quasars are several gigaparsecs away";
    - Gpc

Derived forms: gigaparsecs

Encyclopedia: Gigaparsec