BACKLIGHTING

backlighting

(noun) lighting from behind

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

backlighting

present participle of backlight

Noun

backlighting (uncountable)

The illumination of a photographic subject from the rear, causing edges to glow while other areas remain in shadow.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

11 February 2025

ALEWIFE

(noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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