penumbra
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin paene (“almost”) + umbra (“shadow”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- enPR: pĭ-nŭm'brə
[edit] Noun
penumbra (plural penumbras)
- A partially shaded area around the edges of a shadow, especially an eclipse.
- A region around the edge of a sunspot, darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot.
- Something related to, connected to, and implied by, the existence of something else that is necessary for the second thing to be full and complete in its essential aspects.
- 1965, William O. Douglas, Griswold v. Connecticut, United States Reports, 381 U.S. 479
- The foregoing [United States Supreme Court] cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.
- 1965, William O. Douglas, Griswold v. Connecticut, United States Reports, 381 U.S. 479
- (medicine) (in "ischaemic penumbra", after a stroke) A region of the brain that has lost only some of its blood supply, and retains structural integrity but has lost function.
[edit] Translations
partially shaded area around a shadow, especially an eclipse
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[edit] Portuguese
[edit] Noun
penumbra f. (plural penumbras)
- situation of low light
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Noun
penumbra f.
- penumbra
- half-light
- shadow, shade
- 1926, Federico García Lorca, Oda a salvador Dalí
- El mundo tiene sordas penumbras y desorden,
- en los primeros términos que el humano frecuenta.
- Pero ya las estrellas ocultando paisajes,
- señalan el esquema perfecto de sus órbitas.
- 1926, Federico García Lorca, Oda a salvador Dalí
