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.
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?
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.
His camera captures the filtered half-light falling from the street lamps.
These are the core radius (r c ), the half-light radius (r h ), and the tidal (or Jacobi) radius (r t ).
Some show behaviors live in half-light, like those phones people might want to monitor silently.