doppler effect

1. 1.

   change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other

   SynonymsDoppler shift

   Broaderpropagation

Questions about doppler effect

What does doppler effect mean?

doppler effect means "change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other".

What is another word for doppler effect?

Close synonyms include Doppler shift. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is doppler effect a common word?

doppler effect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.