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What is a redshift?

What is a redshift? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) A change in the wavelength of light, in which the wavelength is longer than when it was emitted at the source.
  2. (politics) The statistical bias towards Republican (or Blue Dog) candidates of US federal elections whose reported results vary considerably from those indicated by voter exit polls.
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The Dark Energy Camera, which lacks a spectrograph, has to rely on other telescopes which do have them to make its redshift measurements for it.
This cosmology has the merit of explaining quantized redshift, which most present cosmologies fail to explain.
The rate at which stars and galaxies are moving away from Earth, meanwhile, can be worked out from their redshift.
Previous attempts to measure a neutron star's redshift focused on a star with an enormous magnetic field.
He has observed high redshift companion galaxies connected to low redshift spiral galaxies.
For this reason, the principal tool of cosmography has become the redshift survey.

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