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What is the noun for penumbras?

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penumbra
  1. A partially shaded area around the edges of a shadow, especially an eclipse.
  2. (astronomy) A region around the edge of a sunspot, darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot.
  3. (figuratively) An area of uncertainty or intermediacy between two mutually exclusive states or categories.
  4. (figuratively) An area that lies on the edge of something; a fringe.
  5. Something related to, connected to, and implied by, the existence of something else that is necessary for the second thing to be full and complete in its essential aspects.
  6. (medicine) (in "ischaemic penumbra", after a stroke) A region of the brain that has lost only some of its blood supply, and retains structural integrity but has lost function.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Each piece generates its own set of shadow and penumbra.”
      “We, her husband and child, hide in the penumbra, partially seen and partially not.”
      “These firms or businesses are not illegal in the strict sense, but there is a shadowy penumbra within which they live.”
penumbrae
  1. plural of penumbra
  2. Examples:
    1. “This unexpected finding could be of critical importance, particularly if the hyper C-2-DG uptake regions represent probable ischemic penumbrae.”
      “The fact that he could see the sunspots with the naked eye and that he could make out the umbrae and penumbrae of the spots suggest that they must have been extremely large.”
      “However, this planning study was performed with a treatment planning system that does not correctly account for the increased lateral secondary electron transport in lung tissue, resulting in too steep beam penumbrae.”
penumbras
  1. plural of penumbra
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Investigate umbras and penumbras produced in a solar eclipse and explain their differences and similarities.”
      “Shadows and penumbras were instantaneously formed from the myriad of trees and hills that he surveyed through the window, and just as quickly vanished.”
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