different between darkening vs shadowing

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darkening

1. present participle of darken

Noun

darkening (countable and uncountable, plural darkenings)

1. The act of something becoming darker.
   • 1978, Gerald Leonard Howett, Kenneth Low Kelly, E. Thomas Pierce, Emergency vehicle warning lights: state of the art

     NEGATIVE FLASHES — Brief darkenings of a light that is otherwise steadily on.

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• de-ranking, deranking, endarking

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Verb

shadowing

1. present participle of shadow

Noun

shadowing (plural shadowings)

1. The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
2. The situation where an individual repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
3. (espionage) Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
4. A faint representation; an adumbration.
   • 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture

     There are […] in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity.

5. (computing) The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.
6. (education) A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.

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