Usually means: Increase in wavelength of light.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. red shift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. red shift: Vocabulary.com
  3. red-shift: Wordnik
  4. red shift: Wiktionary
  5. red shift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. red shift: Dictionary.com
  7. Red Shift (comics), Red Shift (novel), Red Shift (publisher), Red shift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. red shift: Rhymezone
  9. red shift: FreeDictionary.org
  10. red shift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. red shift: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Red-shift, red shift: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RED SHIFT: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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  1. Red Shift: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (red shift)

noun:  (astronomy) Light spectra shifted towards red, as by elongation of light waves from a source moving away from the detector.

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