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Compton shift

Compton shift noun: in Compton scattering, the amount by which the light's wavelength changes.

Noun

Compton shift

  1. In Compton scattering, the amount by which the light's wavelength changes.

Compton shift meaning in Tamil

Compton shift in Tamil

காம்டன் நகர்வு

Questions about Compton shift

What does Compton shift mean?
Compton shift means in Compton scattering, the amount by which the light's wavelength changes.
What is Compton shift in Tamil?
Compton shift in Tamil is காம்டன் நகர்வு. See Compton shift meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Compton shift?
Compton shift is a noun.

Words near Compton shift in the dictionary

  1. Compton Dundon
  2. Compton effect
  3. Compton effects
  4. Compton Pauncefoot
  5. Compton scattering
  6. Compton shift
  7. Compton wavelength
  8. Compton wavelengths
  9. Comptonite
  10. Comptonization
  11. Comptonizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Compton shift (page history and authors); compton shift (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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