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doppler

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for doppler.

Editorial note

The Doppler shift is tracked, as it tells them how fast (in radial terms) the spacecraft is going.

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Quick take

A surname from German

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of doppler gathered in one view.

noun

A surname from German

noun

Ellipsis of Doppler ultrasonography. [Any of various types of ultrasonography that use the Doppler effect.]

verb

(informal) To travel while emitting a sound that changes pitch due to the Doppler effect.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for doppler.

noun

A surname from German

noun

Ellipsis of Doppler ultrasonography. [Any of various types of ultrasonography that use the Doppler effect.]

verb

(informal) To travel while emitting a sound that changes pitch due to the Doppler effect.

noun

(medicine, by ellipsis, informal) Ellipsis of Doppler ultrasonography: Any of various types of ultrasonography that use the Doppler effect; especially, medical versions thereof. [Any of various types of ultrasonography that use the Doppler effect.]

Example sentences

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The Doppler shift is tracked, as it tells them how fast (in radial terms) the spacecraft is going.

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It would be like being someone who didn't hear the Doppler effect when a police car drove past.

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Teach them the doppler effect, so they'll understand that ultrasound flow meter from the get go.

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It also led to me losing a bet that a doppler radar can't be fooled with an empty potato chip bag.

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Signal processing techniques could then be used to extract the doppler while strongly rejecting noise.

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Probably not a navigation hazard but should be interesting on the weather doppler display.

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Same can be said for systems like the mobile Doppler radars the National Weather Service and various universities use for studying severe weather.

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It wouldn't sound so appealing to the driver without the Doppler effect applied.

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The MDI (Michelson Doppler Imager) images shown here are taken in the continuum near the Ni I 6768 Angstrom line.

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You'll hear the Doppler as he overtakes and then cuts you off.

11

Something like a highly focused, microwave frequency carrier, laser doppler vibrometer?

12

They need a stable frequency reference because they use its delta, due to Doppler shifting, as the measure of the spacecraft's radial speed relative to earth.

Quote examples

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Source: I created a pilot project called "Doppler" that was eventually folded into this system.

2

Doppler Labs' recent KS for "Here Active Listening" closed successfully last week with $635k in funding, and they just announced a $17M series B funding round this week.

3

To imply that this MH370 was pre planned using knowledge of the fact that an Immarsat sattelite low on fuel would "wobble" and thus lead to misleading doppler data etc.

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"measuring variations in a star's movement" Not sure what the primary means of doing that is, but I think it includes Doppler shift measurements of the star's light.

Proper noun examples

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Also the jitter between electrical and optical synchronization is in the order of few ps, which is important for things like Doppler-OCT.

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Doppler radar: invented before Bayh-Dole.

3

(Doppler shift, aberration, etc.) Makes me smile every time.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use doppler in a sentence?

The Doppler shift is tracked, as it tells them how fast (in radial terms) the spacecraft is going.

What does doppler mean?

A surname from German

What part of speech is doppler?

doppler is commonly used as noun, verb.