Time Frames for Negative Information. Late payments are black marks that normally stay on a credit report for 7 years. That's true of most negative information like foreclosures, Chapter 13 bankruptcies, charge-offs and paid tax liens; a Chapter 7 bankruptcy stays around for 10 years and unpaid tax liens can linger indefinitely.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Doppler effect (Noun). The apparent change in frequency or wavelength of a wave that is perceived by an observer moving relative to the source of the waves. Origin: From Johann Christian Andreas Doppler, the scientist who first proposed this effect.
The Doppler Effect. The Doppler effect was named after Christian Doppler, who first came up with the idea in 1842. He learned that sound waves would have a higher frequency if the source was moving toward the observer and a lower freqency if the source was moving away from the observer. A commonly used example of the Doppler effect is a train. When a train is approaching, the whistle has a higher pitch than normal. You can hear the change in pitch as the train passes. The same is true with sirens on police cars and the engines of race cars.