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Umbra

//ˈʌmbɹə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.
  2. 2
    a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light wordnet
  3. 3
    The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.; The area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
  4. 4
    The central region of a sunspot.
  5. 5
    A shadow. literary
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  1. 6
    An uninvited guest brought along by one who was invited. archaic
  2. 7
    One of the family Umbridae of mudminnows.
  3. 8
    One of genus Umbrina of drums (family Sciaenidae).
  4. 9
    An element of the umbral calculus.

    "In order to set up such an algorithm, we need the notion of multiplicative inverse of an umbra. Two umbrae are said to be multiplicative inverse to each other when αγ ≡ u."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin umbra (“shadow”). Doublet of umber.

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