Meaning of Smirch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Dirt, or a stain.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
3. A stain on somebody's reputation.
   archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable

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Examples

“Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke⟳ of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.”

“there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay⟳ the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.”

“The strain⟳ h(t) produced by a smirch in LISA is given by h(t) = −-A(t)cos[(t) + φ(t)]”

“By observing a smirch, LISA offers a unique opportunity to directly map the spacetime geometry around the central object and test⟳ whether or not this structure⟳ is in accordance with the expectations of general realtivity.”

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