ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Antishadow

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Antishadow is a noun meaning (physics) The dampening of subatomic shadow effects due to rescattering.

Meaning

(physics) The dampening of subatomic shadow effects due to rescattering.

More Meanings

  1. Whiteness or brightness, especially where darkness is expected or found.
  2. A dampening or absence of shadow.
  3. To reduce subatomic shadow effects.
  4. Opposed to quasilegal activity.
  5. (computer graphics) An inaccurate shadow in a three-dimensional rendering, caused by a vertex of an object being projected through the point of a light source.

Example Sentences

Correct shadows and antishadows are shown in Figure 9.6.
Not necessarily, and the reason is the existence of the reflective (antishadow) scattering at the LHC energies.
The flames melt into each other like antishadows, climb atop the backs of old papers and twigs and start to burn.
The antishadow of pale skin between the exposed tops of her breasts said that her darkness came from the desert sun.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shadow, misshading, overshadowing, mislight, misrendering, overshadowment.

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