redshift

See also: red shift

English

Alternative forms

• red shift

Etymology

From red +‎ shift.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕd'shĭft, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdˌʃɪft/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛdʃɪft
• Hyphenation: red‧shift

Noun

redshift (countable and uncountable, plural redshifts)

1. (physics) A change in the wavelength of light, in which the wavelength is longer than when it was emitted at the source.

   Synonym: blueshift

Derived terms

• cosmological redshift
• gravitational redshift
• redshifted

 

Translations

change in wavelength

• Bulgarian: червено отместване n (červeno otmestvane)
• Catalan: desplaçament cap al roig m
• Chinese: 紅移／红移 (zh) (hóngyí), 红移 (zh) (hóng yí)
• Czech: rudý posuv m
• Danish: rødforskydning
• Dutch: roodverschuiving (nl) f
• Esperanto: ruĝenŝoviĝo
• Estonian: punanihe
• Finnish: punasiirtymä (fi)
• French: décalage vers le rouge (fr)
• German: Rotverschiebung (de) f
• Hebrew: היסט לאדום
• Hungarian: vöröseltolódás (hu)
• Ido: redesko (io)
• Indonesian: pergeseran merah
• Italian: spostamento verso il rosso m
• Japanese: 赤方偏移 (sekihō hen'i)
• Macedonian: црвено поместување n (crveno pomestuvanje)
• Polish: przesunięcie ku czerwieni (pl) n
• Portuguese: desvio para o vermelho m
• Russian: кра́сное смеще́ние (ru) n (krásnoje smeščénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: crveni pomak m

• Sicilian: spustamentu versu lu russu m
• Slovak: červený posun m
• Spanish: corrimiento al rojo m
• Swedish: rödförskjutning (sv)
• Turkish: kırmızıya kayma
• Vietnamese: dịch chuyển đỏ

See also

• Doppler effect