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  2. Umbra, penumbra and antumbra - Wikipedia

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    An alternative definition is that the penumbra is the region where some or all of the light source is obscured (i.e., the umbra is a subset of the penumbra). For example, NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility defines that a body in the umbra is also within the penumbra. [2]

  3. What is an umbra? A penumbra? Here's some terms to know ... - AOL

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    The umbra is the inner, cone-shaped part of the shadow. It is the part in which all of the light has been blocked. What is the penumbra during an eclipse. The second shadow is called the penumbra.

  4. Shadow - Wikipedia

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    Umbra, penumbra and antumbra. A point source of light casts only a simple shadow, called an "umbra". For a non-point or "extended" source of light, the shadow is divided into the umbra, penumbra, and antumbra. The wider the light source, the more blurred the shadow becomes. If two penumbras overlap, the shadows appear to attract and merge.

  5. Stygian - Wikipedia

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    Stygian Penal Colony, a maximum security prison used by the Multiverse Authority in The One; Stygian Iron, an iron sword from the Rick Riordan novels; A giant worm and core boss in the Fantasy action video game Darksiders; The highest difficulty in the video game Darkest Dungeon; Stygian, a 2000 film, the directorial debut of James Wan

  6. Shade (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Shade of Tiresias Appearing to Odysseus during the Sacrifice (c. 1780–85), painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli, showing a scene from Book Ten of the Odyssey. In poetry and literature, a shade (translating Greek σκιά, [1] Latin umbra [2]) is the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld.

  7. List of sundial mottos - Wikipedia

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    Martial's Pereunt et Imputantur on St Buryan's parish church, Cornwall Horace's Umbra Sumus on Brick Lane Mosque, London. Ex iis unam cave. (Beware of one [hour] out of these.) [11] Lente hora, celeriter anni. (An hour [passes] slowly, but the years [pass] quickly.) [11] Meam vide umbram, tuam videbis vitam. (Look at my shadow and you will see ...

  8. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages).. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.

  9. On America's booziest street, surgeon general alcohol warning ...

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    Bourbon Street has long been party central, and little changed in the hours after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Friday outlined the direct link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk.