penumbra

penumbra is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An incomplete or partial shadow. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An incomplete or partial shadow.
2. noun. The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light.
3. noun. The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.
4. noun. a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra

Common word forms

penumbras

Words from these letters

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