umbra

Only part of the Moon entered the darkest section of that shadow, known as the umbra so it was not completely cut off from sunlight.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

At the eclipse's maximum point, about 93% of the Moon's diameter will lie within Earth's dark central shadow, known as the umbra.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

In this case, about 3.5% of the moon will appear darkened by the Earth’s umbra, a term that describes the darkest segment of the Earth’s shadow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

Directly behind the Earth is its main shadow—very dark and narrow, and called the umbra.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024

All were in the umbra of the magnificent hemlock.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

But the ancient habitues—the magni nominis umbrae, contemporaries of Brummell in his zenith, boon companions of George IV. in his regency—still haunted the spot.

From My Novel — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Plato truly believ'd his archetypal Idēas to possess the fourth dimension: For since our solid is triple, but always Its shade only double, solids as umbrae Must lack equally one dimension also.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges

But the ancient /habitues/—the /magni nominis umbrae/, contemporaries of Brummell in his zenith, boon companions of George IV. in his regency— still haunted the spot.

From My Novel — Volume 11 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Virgil thought the odour exhaled by the Juniper tree noxious, and he speaks of the Juniperis gravis umbra:—     "Surgamus! solet esse gravis cantantibus umbra;     Juniperis gravis umbra; nocent et frugibus umbrae."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

The Justices of that day bore a heavier burden than their successors--hodie nominis umbrae.

From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman

The darker central portions of sunspots, or umbras, have the strongest magnetic fields; the lighter exteriors, or penumbras, the weaker fields.

From Time Magazine Archive

Occasionally, the penumbras of two sunspots of opposite polarity merge as they move past each other, putting the oppositely charged umbras in contact.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Because the umbras have opposite polarities, they attract each other," says the Marshall Center's Moore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Verbs impersonal have no nominative case, as Scenas post tragicas multum juvat ire sub umbras: After a tragedy it is very pleasant to go under the Shades.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech

Might we not print above his body the last words of the poem he seems to have loved so much: Fugit indignata sub umbras!

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More