Doppler

[ dop-ler ]

noun
  1. Christian Johann, 1803–53, Austrian physicist: discovered the Doppler effect.

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Doppler

[ dŏplər ]


  1. Austrian physicist and astronomer who in 1842 explained the effect, now named for him, of variations in the frequency of waves as a result of the relative motion of the wave source with respect to the observer.

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