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Shadow
Area where light is blocked by an object / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Shadow (disambiguation).
A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an object. It occupies all of the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or a reverse projection of the object blocking the light.
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