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antishadow

antishadow noun: an inaccurate shadow in a three-dimensional rendering, caused by a vertex of an object being projected through the point of a light source.

Noun

antishadow (plural antishadows)

  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 9.6.2011, Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman, Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition, page 336
  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.1995, J.-F. Mathiot, J. Thanh Van Tran, The Heart of the Matter, from Nuclear Interactions to Quark Gluon Dynamics, →ISBN, page 494
    • The other uses "antishadows", additional shadow degrees of freedom that can be made antithetic to the existing shadows.1995, Luciano Reatto, Franca Manghi, Progress in Computational Physics of Matter, →ISBN, page 1995
  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.1994, Bernard Schopen; William W. Savage, Jr., The Big Silence, →ISBN, page 5
    • She snaps the chain of the overhead bulb at the same moment a thin slice of white cat, an antishadow, slips past her legs.2011, Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven, →ISBN
  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.2004, Joan D. Vinge, Dreamfall, →ISBN, page 318
    • 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...2015, Jonathan Mingle, Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World, →ISBN, page 201

Verb

antishadow (third-person singular simple present antishadows, present participle antishadowing, simple past and past participle antishadowed)

  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.1995, Physics of Atomic Nuclei - Volume 58, page 1615
    • The shift of the momentum distributions towards higher x values not only explains why bound nucleons are shadowed relative to free ones at low x but also implies that the bound nucleons should be antishadowed at some higher values.1995, Research Experience for Undergraduates Research Reports

Adjective

antishadow (not comparable)

  1. Opposed to quasilegal activity.
    • 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...1998, Lakdasa Wijetilleke, Rapti Goonesekere, Mitigating Transport Pollution in Developing Countries, →ISBN, page 27
    • This must be kept in mind in examining the "antishadow economy" sentiments of the majority of Russians who experienced the Soviet period, many of whom have not found a place for themselves in today's criminal, shadow reality and have been driven to the margins of economic life.2002, Russian Social Science Review, page 18

Examples of antishadow in a sentence

  • Not necessarily, and the reason is the existence of the reflective (antishadow) scattering at the LHC energies.2009, Donald G. Crabb, Yelena Prok, Matt Poelker, Spin Physics: 18th International Spin Physics Symposium, →ISBN, page 122:
  • The flames melt into each other like antishadows, climb atop the backs of old papers and twigs and start to burn.2012, Leah Bobet, Above, →ISBN:
  • First, while the origin of nuclear shadowing is understood, the dynamics of antishadowing is unknown2002, Vadim Guzey, Proceedings of the Workshop on Physics at the Japan Hadron Facility, →ISBN:
  • The nuclear structure function is predicted to be enhanced precisely in the domain 0.1<x<0.2 where antishadowing is empirically observed.2011, Yu L. Dokshitzer, P. Levai, Julia Nyiri, Gribov-80 Memorial Volume: Quantum Chromodynamics and Beyond, →ISBN:

Forms of antishadow

Noun
pluralantishadows
Verb
third-person singular presentantishadows
present participleantishadowing
past participleantishadowed
pastantishadowed

Origin of antishadow

From anti- + shadow.

Questions about antishadow

What does antishadow mean?
Antishadow means an inaccurate shadow in a three-dimensional rendering, caused by a vertex of an object being projected through the point of a light source.
How do you use antishadow in a sentence?
Not necessarily, and the reason is the existence of the reflective (antishadow) scattering at the LHC energies.
What part of speech is antishadow?
Antishadow can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
What is the plural of antishadow?
The plural of antishadow is antishadows.

Words near antishadow in the dictionary

  1. antisexuality
  2. antisexuals
  3. antisfermion
  4. antisfermions
  5. antish
  6. antishadow
  7. antishadowed
  8. antishadowing
  9. antishadows
  10. antishake
  11. antishame

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