peculiar velocity

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   velocity with respect to the local standard of rest

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Questions about peculiar velocity

What does peculiar velocity mean?

peculiar velocity means "velocity with respect to the local standard of rest".

Is peculiar velocity a common word?

peculiar velocity 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.