MEANING
A displacement of observed radiation toward longer wavelengths compared with its emitted wavelengths.
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- cosmological redshift
- measure a redshift
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The galaxy’s redshift suggested a great distance.
The spectrum showed a gravitational redshift near the compact star.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular: redshift; plural: redshifts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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