A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
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My shadow lengthened as the sun began to set.
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The X-ray showed a shadow on his lung.
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The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
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1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: