effect of shadowing

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• shadowing — noun a) The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission. b) Speech shadowing is when an individual repeats speech as they hear it immediately without delay (usually through earphones) …   Wiktionary

• Self-shadowing — is a computer graphics lighting effect, used in 3D rendering applications such as computer animation and video games. Self shadowing allows non static objects in the environment, such as characters and interactive objects (buckets, chairs, etc),… …   Wikipedia

• Mere exposure effect — The mere exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. In social psychology, this effect is sometimes called the familiarity principle. The effect …   Wikipedia

• Yarkovsky effect — The Yarkovsky effect is a force acting on a rotating body in space caused by the anisotropic emission of thermal photons, which carry momentum. It is usually considered in relation to meteoroids or small asteroids (about 10 cm to 10 km in… …   Wikipedia

• Cocktail party effect — The cocktail party effect describes the ability to focus one s listening attention on a single talker among a mixture of conversations and background noises, ignoring other conversations.[1] The effect enables most people to talk in a noisy place …   Wikipedia

• Seismic shadowing — is a global effect of an earthquake. The seismic waves generated by an earthquake pass through the body of the Earth, but between 104° and 140° from the focus of an earthquake, little or no seismic waves can be detected. This is because primary… …   Wikipedia

• Massenerhebung effect — The Massenerhebung effect (German for mountain mass elevation ) describes variation in the tree line based on mountain size and location. In general, mountains surrounded by large ranges will tend to have higher tree lines than more isolated… …   Wikipedia

• shadow striping — noun : obscure striping that gives the effect of shadowing bolder stripes with which it is associated shadow striping in the pattern of a zebra …   Useful english dictionary

• Le Sage's theory of gravitation — is the most common name for the kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges Louis Le Sage in 1748. The theory proposed a mechanical explanation for Newton s gravitational force in terms… …   Wikipedia

• Common Lisp — Paradigm(s) Multi paradigm: procedural, functional, object oriented, meta, reflective, generic Appeared in 1984, 1994 for ANSI Common Lisp Developer ANSI X3J13 committee Typing discipline …   Wikipedia

• Low-energy ion scattering — LEIS redirects here; for the Hawaiian garland see Lei (Hawaii). Low energy ion scattering spectroscopy (LEIS), sometimes referred to simply as ion scattering spectroscopy (ISS), is a surface sensitive analytical technique used to characterize the …   Wikipedia