Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
An incomplete or partial shadow.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.
- 4noun
a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra
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