Doppler effect
Example Sentences
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This Doppler effect is illustrated by the whistle of an approaching train.
From New York Times
Outside, ambulances raced by carrying people who shouldn't have been infected, their sirens trilling in a bleak and seemingly constant display of the Doppler effect.
From Salon
That phenomenon, known as the Doppler effect, is similar to the changing pitch of train whistles and police sirens as they speed by.
From New York Times
Mueller studies bat behaviors, including their adaptations to the Doppler effect or Doppler shift.
From Scientific American
What they were looking for were variations in the interval between pulses, due to the Doppler effect, which would have occurred if the signals were coming from a planet in orbit around a star.
From Nature
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