umbra
noun
umbras
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pluralof umbra.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
"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
So Brother Copas had told her, to himself repeating— "Cras amorum copulatrix inter umbras arborum Inplicat casas virentes de flagello myrteo...."
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
