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单词 bluewards
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bluewardsadv.adj.

Brit. /ˈbluːwəds/, U.S. /ˈbluwərds/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: blue n., -wards suffix.
Etymology: < blue n. + -wards suffix. Compare earlier blueward adj. and slightly later blueward adv.
Physics and Astronomy.
A. adv.
Towards the blue end of the visible spectrum; in the direction of the blue end. Cf. blueward adv.
ΚΠ
1891 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 5) IV. iii. iii. 1236 As we pass bluewards the brightness increases, partly because the red sensation is more powerfully excited.
1971 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 83 631/2 The low-temperature boundary of the core-helium burning giants in a super-helium-rich cluster should lie bluewards of the Hayashi boundary.
1980 Sci. News 117 140/2 SS433 has three sets of emission lines... Two of them gradually change, shifting redwards, then bluewards, then back again.
2010 C. A. Haswell Transiting Exoplanets v. 182 The measured radial velocity is shifted bluewards compared to the true orbital radial velocity.
B. adj.
= blueward adj.
ΚΠ
1958 Observatory 78 170 The bluewards increase of the scattering coefficient may be attributed to Rayleigh scattering by neutral hydrogen atoms.
1986 A. Maeder in C. W. H. de Loore et al. Luminous Stars & Assoc. Galaxies v. 297 This evolution resembles the homogeneous one giving bluewards tracks in the HR diagram.
2007 M. Camenzind Compact Objects in Astrophysics viii. 440 The high-energy bluewards extent of the line is a strong function of the inclination of the disk.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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