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Shadowy area
Answer for the clue "Shadowy area ", 8 letters:
penumbra
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The penumbra is the part of a shadow where the light source is only partially blocked. Penumbra may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penumbra \Pe*num"bra\, n. [NL., fr. L. paene almost + umbra shade.] An incomplete or partial shadow. (Astron.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A partially shaded area around the edges of a shadow, especially an eclipse. 2 (context astronomy English) A region around the edge of a sunspot, darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot. 3 (context figuratively English) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra [also: penumbrae (pl)]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In other words, the First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion. ▪ She kept hitting my forehead, and penumbra replaced myopia, and my arms fell away, no longer offering interference. ...
Usage examples of penumbra.
Before we even got into Penumbra you were bumping and swearing at some poor boggart because you said he spilled your lunch.
Station was about the same size as Penumbra but without a dome, a long, low, barnlike structure with an open scaffolding roof trussed by metal bars.
A moment later the name came back too, but so did the memory of Rufinus weft-Daisy being stabbed to death in Penumbra Station.
A few children were out early, probably on their way to school, the younger ones accompanied by parents or even occasionally by one of the rainbow nanny-bubbles he had seen back in Penumbra Fields.
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.
He could probably fight off the enemy penumbra, but not a direct invasion.
He cast his penumbra out, searching for help he knew was not available.
NK-2 cried, extending his battered penumbra just enough to make contact.
The enemy penumbra prevented any normal contacts, but he could still needle to any previously checked potential host.
He brought the chair into the living room and placed it within the penumbra of light from the floor lamp.
There was the spectral image of a man in black standing just within the penumbra of the bathroom light.
Both ships were deep inside the penumbra now, although the gigantic orange and white crescent they were fleeing from still cast a glorious coronal glow across them.
By a process of careful selection, he would have to requisition jurors of compassion and sensitivity whose minds would be open to fresh concepts and whose imaginations would permit them to take the plunge into the penumbra of the occult and whose religious backgrounds would not cause them to discount the supernatural as entirely unthinkable.
And there stood the Rhivi child, a sunrise aura about her person, a penumbra of power that stirred the wilder blood that coursed within him.