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backshine

backshine noun: reflected light.

Noun

backshine (uncountable)

  1. Reflected light.
    • [...] laser beam is a Brewster window for reducing backshine of the laser beam into the detectors placed behind the observation windows.1973, Edward Grant Brame, Applied spectroscopy reviews
    • He also speaks of the manifold images which these signs evoke as 'backshine.'1991, Yoshihiko Ikegami, The Empire of signs: semiotic essays on Japanese culture

Verb

backshine (third-person singular simple present backshines, present participle backshining, simple past and past participle backshone or backshined)

  1. (ambitransitive) To reflect light; shine back.

Forms of backshine

third-person singular presentbackshines
present participlebackshining
past participlebackshone
pastbackshone
past participlebackshined
pastbackshined

Origin of backshine

From back + shine.

Questions about backshine

What does backshine mean?
Backshine means reflected light.
What part of speech is backshine?
Backshine can be a noun or a verb.

Words near backshine in the dictionary

  1. backshells
  2. backshift
  3. backshifted
  4. backshifting
  5. backshifts
  6. backshine
  7. backshish
  8. backshished
  9. backshishes
  10. backshishing
  11. backshoot

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