Associations to the word «Umbra»

Wiktionary

UMBRA, noun. A shadow.
UMBRA, noun. (astronomy) The central region of a sunspot.
UMBRA RECTA, noun. On a shadow in the shape of a right triangle, the length of the shadow's edge adjacent to a measured angle.
UMBRA VERSA, noun. On a shadow in the shape of a right triangle, the length of the shadow's edge opposite to a measured angle.

Dictionary definition

UMBRA, noun. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne