Usually means: Region influenced by past events.
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  1. light cone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. light cone: Wiktionary
  3. Light cone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Light Cone: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Light Cone: Extragalactic Astronomy

Definitions from Wiktionary (light cone)

noun:  (relativity) In special relativity, the pattern describing the temporal evolution of a flash of light in Minkowski spacetime. This is modeled in 3-space using the two horizontal axes as spatial dimensions, while the vertical axis is time.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see light, cone.

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