antishadow

noun 4verb 1adj 1

Definitions

noun

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.

The other uses "antishadows", additional shadow degrees of freedom that can be made antithetic to the existing shadows.

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.

She snaps the chain of the overhead bulb at the same moment a thin slice of white cat, an antishadow, slips past her legs.

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.

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 cooking and heating, something to sell in the market for a few yuan.

verb

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.

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.

adj

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 dodgers based on special normative acts rather than usually applied ones.

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.

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