shadowing

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Synonyms: showing, shadowish, shadowily, shallowing, shading, shamoying, shaoxing, shadowier

Antonyms: showing, shadowish, shadowily, shallowing, shading, shamoying, shaoxing, shadowier

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Noun

1. The effect of being [[shadow]]ed (in the sense of blocked), as from a [[light source]] or [[radio]] transmission.
2. The situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through [[earphones]]).
3. {{lb|en|espionage}} [[secretly|Secretly]] or discreetly [[track]]ing or [[follow]]ing someone, keeping under [[surveillance]].
4. A [[faint]] [[representation]]; an [[adumbration]].
5. {{lb|en|computing}} The technique of [[copy]]ing [[ROM]] contents to [[RAM]] to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized [[memory]] [[location]]s are switched in on the same [[block]] of [[address]]es.
6. {{lb|en|education}} A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.

Verb

1. {{infl of|en|shadow||ing-form}}

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