Home › Words › D › dereddendereddenderedden means to correct for redshift.EtymologyFrom de- + redden.verbTo correct for redshift.To make less red; to remove the red from.e.g.“Cold made noses of Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, and others of the Walter Wanger cast red. Hence, Makeup Man Kaufman had problem of dereddening noses.” — 1935 December 29, “Inside Studio Stuff”, in The New York Times, volume LXXXV, number 28,463, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, section 9, page 4, column 2:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.dereddened 63% match — Rendered less red (regarding hue, saturation, or shade). vs deredden →redshifting 62% match — The production of a redshift. vs deredden →redshifted 57% match — (of light and other radiation) Increased in wavelength as a consequence of redshift vs deredden →delens 56% match — To remove lensing effects from CMB maps vs deredden →redshift 56% match — An increase in the wavelength of a photon or of light, corresponding to a lower frequency and a shift toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum. vs deredden →delensing 55% match — The removal of lensing effects (from CMB maps) vs deredden →dedispersion 55% match — The act of dedispersing. vs deredden →derotate 54% match — To correct a rotational deformity. vs deredden →