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shadowing

verb

Meaning

  1. To shade, cloud or darken.
  2. To block light or radio transmission from.
  3. To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
  4. To represent faintly and imperfectly.
  5. To hide; to conceal.
  6. To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
  7. The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
  8. The situation where an individual repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
  9. Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
  10. A faint representation; an adumbration.
  11. The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.
  12. A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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