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UNIT OF LENGTH USED IN ASTRONOMY
Megaparsec; Kiloparsec; Parsecs; Megaparsecs; Gigaparsec; ㍶; Parallax of one arc second; Milliparsec; Microparsec; Kiloparsecs; Secpar; Parallax second; Zeptoparsec; Parsec (unit)

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SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR PERFORMING ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS OF SOLIDS AND MOLECULES USING DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY
Megaparsec; Kiloparsec; Parsecs; Megaparsecs; Gigaparsec; ㍶; Parallax of one arc second; Milliparsec; Microparsec; Kiloparsecs; Secpar; Parallax second; Zeptoparsec; Parsec (unit)
Extensible language with PL/I-like syntax, derived from PROTEUS. "PARSEC User's Manual", Bolt Beranek & Newman (Dec 1972).
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR PERFORMING ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS OF SOLIDS AND MOLECULES USING DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY
Megaparsec; Kiloparsec; Parsecs; Megaparsecs; Gigaparsec; ㍶; Parallax of one arc second; Milliparsec; Microparsec; Kiloparsecs; Secpar; Parallax second; Zeptoparsec; Parsec (unit)
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¦ noun Astronomy a unit of distance equal to about 3.25 light years (3.08 . 1016 metres), corresponding to the distance at which the mean radius of the earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second of arc.
Origin
early 20th cent.: blend of parallax and second2.
PARSEC         
SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR PERFORMING ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS OF SOLIDS AND MOLECULES USING DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY
Megaparsec; Kiloparsec; Parsecs; Megaparsecs; Gigaparsec; ㍶; Parallax of one arc second; Milliparsec; Microparsec; Kiloparsecs; Secpar; Parallax second; Zeptoparsec; Parsec (unit)
PARSEC is a package designed to perform electronic structure calculations of solids and molecules using density functional theory (DFT). The acronym stands for Pseudopotential Algorithm for Real-Space Electronic Calculations.

Wikipedia

Parsec

The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to 3.26 light-years or 206,265 astronomical units (au), i.e. 30.9 trillion kilometres (19.2 trillion miles). The parsec unit is obtained by the use of parallax and trigonometry, and is defined as the distance at which 1 au subtends an angle of one arcsecond (1/3600 of a degree). This corresponds to 648000/π astronomical units, i.e. 1 pc = 1 au/tan(1 arcsec). The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about 1.3 parsecs (4.2 light-years) from the Sun. Most stars visible to the naked eye are within a few hundred parsecs of the Sun, with the most distant at a few thousand.

The word parsec is a portmanteau of "parallax of one second" and was coined by the British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner in 1913 to make calculations of astronomical distances from only raw observational data easy for astronomers. Partly for this reason, it is the unit preferred in astronomy and astrophysics, though the light-year remains prominent in popular science texts and common usage. Although parsecs are used for the shorter distances within the Milky Way, multiples of parsecs are required for the larger scales in the universe, including kiloparsecs (kpc) for the more distant objects within and around the Milky Way, megaparsecs (Mpc) for mid-distance galaxies, and gigaparsecs (Gpc) for many quasars and the most distant galaxies.

In August 2015, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) passed Resolution B2 which, as part of the definition of a standardized absolute and apparent bolometric magnitude scale, mentioned an existing explicit definition of the parsec as exactly 648000/π au, or approximately 30.856775814913673×1015 metres (based on the IAU 2012 exact SI definition of the astronomical unit). This corresponds to the small-angle definition of the parsec found in many astronomical references.

Pronunciation examples for PARSEC
1. A parsec is 3.26 light years.
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2. So an object that is one parsec away
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3. We believe that we have resolved the final parsec problem.
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4. So the first thing is that the parsec
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5. host star somewhere in 100 parsec away from here.
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Examples of use of PARSEC
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