red shift
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The red shift indicates a change in the electronic structure or optical properties of the material.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2024
While this cosmological red shift is often called a Doppler shift, it is not—space itself is expanding.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
The red shift of the intervening galaxy is always less than that of the one being lensed, and each image of the lensed galaxy has the same red shift.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
What does this imply, assuming that the only source of red shift is relative motion?
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
This suggested that the red shift was instead caused by the expansion of the universe, which, in turn, meant that the object was a very long distance away.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
