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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The increase in wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, especially of an x-ray or a gamma-ray photon, scattered by an electron.
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- noun physics The increase in the
wavelength , and corresponding decrease in theenergy , ofphotons (especially ofX-rays andgamma rays ) whenscattered byinteraction withmatter
Etymologies
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[After Arthur Holly Compton.]
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For Arthur Compton American physicist
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