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Red shift

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  1. 1
    Light spectra shifted towards red, as by elongation of light waves from a source moving away from the detector.
  2. 2
    (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding wordnet

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