Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rossiter-mclaughlin effect

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English

Syllables: rossiter-m-claugh-lin -ef-fect
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

6

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A spectroscopic phenomenon observed when an object moves across the face of a rotating star which is seen to undergo a redshift anomaly caused by the obscuration of different parts of its disk.

Etymology

Named after Richard Alfred Rossiter and Dean Benjamin McLaughlin.

Inflected Forms

Rossiter-McLaughlin effects (plural)

Questions

What does rossiter-mclaughlin effect mean?: A spectroscopic phenomenon observed when an object moves across the face of a rotating star which is seen to undergo a redshift anomaly caused by the obscuration of different parts of its disk.
Where does rossiter-mclaughlin effect come from?: Named after Richard Alfred Rossiter and Dean Benjamin McLaughlin.

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