Antishadow
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
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.
"Correct shadows and antishadows are shown in Figure 9.6."
- 2 The dampening of subatomic shadow effects due to rescattering.
"The calculations prove that the rate of the colour transparency growth with v depends on the contribution of resonances in the inelastic antishadow rescattering."
- 3 Whiteness or brightness, especially where darkness is expected or found.
"The antishadow of pale skin between the exposed tops of her breasts said that her darkness came from the desert sun."
- 4 A dampening or absence of shadow.
"I glanced along the wall until I found a window, only recognizing it by the antishadows of clouds passing in the distance."
- 1 To reduce subatomic shadow effects.
"This linear dependence has not been applied in data analysis since the discovery of the shadowing and antishadowing effects."
- 1 Opposed to quasilegal activity. not-comparable
"The government pursues a variety of antishadow actions. For example, it enforces tax collection by introducing new taxes, using more sophisticated methods for accounting, calculating, paying, and auditing taxes, expanding the mandate of the tax administration, and investigating and punishing dodgers based on special normative acts rather than usually applied ones."
Example
More examples"Correct shadows and antishadows are shown in Figure 9.6."
Etymology
From anti- + shadow.
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