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penumbral, a.|pɪˈnʌmbrəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by a penumbra or partial shadow. Also fig.
penumbral eclipse, a lunar eclipse in which only the penumbra falls on the moon's disk.
1768Phil. Trans. LVIII. 331 It was remarkably distinct from the penumbral shade. 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art I. 443 Places which fall within this penumbral cone, and are out of the dense shadow. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. i. 14 We are looking forward to this more penumbral darkness as an era. It has now been fifty-two days since we could read such type. 1884Tyndall Let. in Times 26 Nov., Between truth and untruth there lies a penumbral zone which belongs equally to both; and I have often admired the adroitness with which Mr. Chamberlain sails within the ‘half-shadow’. a1922T. S. Eliot Waste Land Drafts (1971) 37 Within this penumbral consciousness. 1965Mod. Law Rev. XXVIII. 510 The American concern with the judicial process and the creative element in the common law is particularly appropriate in analysing the role of appeal courts, for appeal courts..are primarily concerned with penumbral issues. |