cosmological redshift

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noun Astronomy.

the part of the redshift of celestial objects resulting from the expansion of the universe.

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The universe, it turns out, expands, and Einstein considered the cosmological constant his “biggest blunder.”
This Week’s Hot Reads: May 20, 2013|Cameron Martin, Jessica Ferri, Jimmy So|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But observations today suggest that, indeed, the cosmological constant is necessary.
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Although his cosmological references are often incidental they are not introduced in a pedantic manner.
Astronomical Lore in Chaucer|Florence M. Grimm
If it is consistently worked out, it leads to pure cosmological dualism.
The Wonders of Life|Ernst Haeckel

This makes it clear that Fornjot and his offspring are not historical persons, but cosmological impersonations.
The Younger Edda|Snorre
In the last century the dogma of liberty was fought with general philosophic and cosmological arguments.
The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century|Ernst Haeckel
The cosmological proof—that the “moral order of the world” demands the eternal duration of the human soul—is a baseless dogma.
The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century|Ernst Haeckel