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macroturbulence
Large-scale motions, at up to 50 km/s, in a stellar atmosphere that smear out a star's spectral lines without changing their effective width. The effect of macroturbulence is particularly noticeable in the spectra of giant and supergiant stars. Compare with microturbulence.
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