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half-light

Noun

Meaning

a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)

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Twilight remained, a fairy half-light in which all things looked much more charming than they really were. Murray Leinster

Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart? Jean-Paul Sartre

Note that the half-light radius includes stars in the outer part of the cluster that happen to lie along the line of sight, so theorists will also use the half-mass radius (r m )—the radius from the core that contains half the total mass of the cluster. Source: Internet

His camera captures the filtered half-light falling from the street lamps. Source: Internet

These are the core radius (r c ), the half-light radius (r h ), and the tidal (or Jacobi) radius (r t ). Source: Internet

Some show behaviors live in half-light, like those phones people might want to monitor silently. Source: Internet

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