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Shadow: To cover an opponent, one on one, everywhere on the ice. As a noun, a player assigned to shadow a specific opponent.

Rain Shadow: Also referred to as a precipitation shadow, it is the region on the lee side of a mountain or similar barrier where the precipitation is less than on the windward side. For example, the rela . . . View Full Definition

Shadow Stock: First, a public company may create a stock that strips out the market wide movements for the purpose of rewarding managers. That is, the management might have done a great job - but the trad . . . View Full Definition

Foreshadowing: Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative. Foreshadowing often provides hints about what will happen next. For instance, a movie director might show a . . . View Full Definition

Shadowing: A technique used to increase a computer's speed by using high-speed RAM memory in place of slower ROM memory (RAM is about three times as fast as ROM). On PCs, for example, all code to contr . . . View Full Definition

Job Shadowing: A temporary, unpaid work experience opportunity where students learn about a particular job (typically in a field of interest) by walking through the work day as a shadow to an employee.

Shadow Sector: A sector on the radarscope in which the appearance of radar echoes is improbable because of an obstruction near the antenna. While both blind and shadow sectors have the same basic cause, bl . . . View Full Definition

Shadow Integration: This modality is based on Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow--those parts of your personality or beliefs that you do not give a conscious place in your life. The theory is that by putting you . . . View Full Definition

Shadow Detail: Details visible in areas that are darkest in the subject.

Shadow Calendar: A backlog of securities issues registered with the SEC, awaiting the determination of an offer date.