Meaning of antishadow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inaccurate shadow in a three-dimensional rendering, caused by a vertex of an object being projected through the point of a light source.
2. The dampening of subatomic shadow effects due to rescattering.
3. Whiteness or brightness, especially where darkness is expected or found.
4. A dampening or absence of shadow.

Examples

“Correct shadows and antishadows are shown in Figure 9.6.”

“The calculations prove that the rate of the colour transparency growth with v depends on the contribution of resonances in the inelastic antishadow rescattering.”

“The other uses "antishadows", additional shadow degrees of freedom that can be made antithetic to the existing shadows.”

“Not necessarily, and the reason is the existence of the reflective (antishadow) scattering at the LHC energies.”

“The antishadow of pale skin between the exposed tops of her breasts said that her darkness came from the desert sun.”

“She snaps the chain of the overhead bulb at the same moment a thin slice of white cat, an antishadow, slips past her legs.”

“The flames melt into each other like antishadows, climb atop the backs of old papers and twigs and start to burn.”

“I glanced along the wall until I found a window, only recognizing it by the antishadows of clouds passing in the distance.”

“The pine forests that coat the southern flanks of the gorge—and that, together with the antishadow cast by the frequent mists, make it look like the one true setting for all of those ancient Chinese ink scroll paintings of lonely poets and waterfalls—provide the wood for building homes, fuel for cooking and heating, something to sell in the market for a few yuan.”

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