English Explanatory Dictionary

velocity dispersion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The statistical dispersion (about a mean) of the velocities of the stars in a galaxy (or galaxies in a cluster)

Word forms

velocity dispersion velocity dispersions
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