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Noun
1. radial velocity; line-of-sight velocity
Wikipedia definition
2. Radial velocityRadial velocity is the velocity of an object in the direction of the line of sight (i.e. its speed straight towards or away from an observer). In astronomy, radial velocity most commonly refers to the spectroscopic radial velocity. The spectroscopic radial velocity is the radial component of the velocity of the source at emission and the observer at observation, as determined by spectroscopy.
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