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Shadow during an eclipse
Answer for the clue "Shadow during an eclipse ", 5 letters:
umbra
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Word definitions for umbra in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A shadow. 2 (context astronomy English) The central region of a sunspot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "phantom, ghost," a figurative use from Latin umbra "shade, shadow" (see umbrage ). Astronomical sense of "shadow cast by the earth or moon during an eclipse" is first recorded 1670s. Meaning "an uninvited guest accompanying an invited one" is from ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Umbra was a collective of young black writers based in Manhattan 's Lower East Side that was founded in 1962.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light [also: umbrae (pl)]
Usage examples of umbra.
Denis Dussoubs was speaking:-- Admonet et magna testatur voce per umbras.
In that case there would be an abrupt struggle for existence: penumbra against umbra.
His penumbra was entirely taken up with the occupation of this alternate host, acting as a temporary umbra.
Quaesivi, regum perque alta palatia, frustra: Sed vos hortorum per opaca silentia, longe Celarunt plantae virides, et concolor umbra.
They were in Mirchusko’s umbra, with Choisya and Falsia hovering just above the gas giant’s crescent horizon.
A small creosote bush was undercut and it, too, disappeared into the vitreous umbra.
Nor will I work you a fiap of fair venture because I am aware of bodes and umbras, and all may not go well.
Not far from where he stood, the stones—or the umbras of the stones—were alive.
And finally that arduous climb, twist by twist of our straining foot-pads, through the Pass of Long Umbras to reach this green vale where, four traeki generations ago, geysers steamed and rainbows danced, celebrating the dark ovoid's emergence?
And finally that arduous climb, twist by twist of our straining foot-pads, through the Pass of Long Umbras to reach this green vale where, four traeki generations ago, geysers steamed and rainbows danced, celebrating the dark ovoid’s emergence?
As each starship crossed into the umbra its spaceplane undocked and performed a retro-burn which pushed it onto an atmosphere interception trajectory.