💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Redshift"
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| Word | Definition |
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| quasarsnoun | (astronomy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe. |
| supernovaenoun | (astronomy) A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed. |
| blueshiftnoun | (physics: astronomy, relativity) A decrease in the wavelength of a photon or of light, corresponding to a higher frequency and a shift toward the blue end of the electromagnetic spectrum. |
| gravitational redshiftnoun | (astronomy, physics) A shift to longer wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by atoms in a strong gravitational field. |
| red shiftnoun | (astronomy) Light spectra shifted towards red, as by elongation of light waves from a source moving away from the detector. |
| cosmological redshiftnoun | (astronomy) That part of any redshift that is accounted for by the expansion of spacetime following the Big Bang |
| lightshiftnoun | (physics) The change in the energy (and thus frequency) of light upon interaction with matter. |
| phaseshiftnoun | (physics) A difference in phase values. |
| space reddeningnoun | (astronomy, astrophysics) The reddening of the light from distant stars because of selective absorption and scattering by interstellar dust |
| doppler broadeningnoun | (physics) The broadening of the spectral lines of a high-temperature or rapidly-rotating object due to redshifting of spectral lines from atoms and molecules moving away from the observer and blueshifting of spectral lines from atoms and molecules moving toward the observer. |
| red detuningnoun | (physics) A situation in which the frequency is lower ("redder") than the resonance frequency. |
| blue detuningnoun | (physics) A situation in which the frequency is higher ("bluer") than the resonance frequency. |
| refractionnoun | (physics) The turning or bending of any wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density. |
| downconversionnoun | (electronics) The conversion of a high radio frequency to a lower frequency. |
| upconversionnoun | (electronics) Conversion of a lower radio frequency to a higher frequency, possibly using a mixer. |
| doppler shiftnoun | The Doppler effect. |
| field shiftnoun | (physics) The portion of an isotope shift produced by the changing shape of a nucleus upon the addition of a neutron |
| light wavenoun | (physics) An electromagnetic wave of light. |
| fieldshiftnoun | Alternative spelling of field shift. [(physics) The portion of an isotope shift produced by the changing shape of a nucleus upon the addition of a neutron] |
| linebroadeningnoun | (physics) The broadening of a spectral line. |
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