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A shadow is an area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object. It occupies all of the space behind an opaque object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or reverse projection of the object blocking the...

is a region of darkness where light is blocked.

Shadow(s) may also refer to:

Film

  • The Shadow (1933 film)
    The Shadow (1933 film)
    The Shadow is a 1933 British film directed by George A. Cooper.-Cast:* Henry Kendall as Reggie Ogden* Elizabeth Allan as Sonia Bryant* Felix Aylmer as Sir Richard Bryant* Jeanne Stuart as Moya Silverton* Cyril Raymond as Silverton...

    , a film starring Felix Aylmer
  • The Shadow (1994 film)
    The Shadow (1994 film)
    The Shadow is a 1994 American superhero film, directed by Russell Mulcahy, and based on the character of the same name created by Walter B. Gibson in 1931. Alec Baldwin starred in the title role...

    , a film by Russell Mulcahy, starring Alec Baldwin
  • The Shadow (2011 film), an upcoming Telugu film by Vishnuvardhan
  • Shadow (1956 film), a 1956 film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
  • Shadow (2009 film)
    Shadow (2009 film)
    Shadow, The Dark Side of Truth, is a 2009 Hindi film produced by visually impaired Nasser Khan. The film is directed by Rohit Nayyar....

    , a film starring Nasser Khan
  • Shadows (1916 film)
    Shadows (1916 film)
    -Cast:* Frank Mayo* Philo McCullough* Harry Southard* Lillian West...

    , a film by B. Reeves Eason
  • Shadows (1922 film)
    Shadows (1922 film)
    Shadows is a 1922 silent drama film starring Lon Chaney, Sr., Marguerite De La Motte, Harrison Ford, and John St. Polis. Shadows is a tale of deception, sacrifice and humility by a gentle Chinese immigrant in a small New England town directed by Tom Forman.-Plot:A boastful and proud yet abusive...

    , a film starring Lon Chaney, Sr.
  • Shadows (1931 film)
    Shadows (1931 film)
    Shadows is a 1931 British crime film directed by Alexander Esway and starring Jacqueline Logan, Bernard Nedell and Gordon Harker. The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.-Cast:...

    , a British film
  • Shadows (1959 film), a film by John Cassavetes
  • Shadows (2007 film)
    Shadows (2007 film)
    Shadows is a 2007 film from the Republic of Macedonia. The film was directed, produced and written by Milčo Mančevski. It was filmed on location in both Skopje, Ohrid and several other locations in the Republic of Macedonia.-Plot:...

    , a film by Milčo Mančevski

Literature

  • Shadow (book)
    Shadow (book)
    Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate is a 1999 book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, written with a narrative voice while utilizing firsthand interviews and news reports for its historical basis...

    , a 1999 book by Bob Woodward
  • Shadow (Star Trek)
    Shadow (Star Trek)
    Shadow is a Star Trek: Section 31 novel written by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.-Synopsis:Section 31, an amoral, rogue branch of Starfleet, manages to affect the starship Voyager, lost on the other side of the galaxy. 'Seven', a new and trusted crewmember rescued from the Borg, is...

    , a 2001 Star Trek novel
  • Shadow (Marcia Brown book)
    Shadow (Marcia Brown book)
    Shadow is a translation of the poem La Féticheuse by French writer Blaise Cendrars. The book was released by Scribner and illustrated by Marcia Brown. It was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1983, Brown's third honor....

    , a 1982 book that won a Caldecott Medal for illustrator Marcia Brown
  • The Shadow (fairy tale)
    The Shadow (fairy tale)
    "The Shadow" is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published in 1847.- Plot summary :Once a learned man from the northern regions of Europe went on a voyage south. One night, he sat on his terrace, while the fire behind him cast his shadow on the...

    , an 1847 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen

Albums

  • The Shadows (album)
    The Shadows (album)
    The Shadows, a 1961 rock album by British group The Shadows, was the first instrumental LP by a British group to reach number one in the UK charts.-Track listing:Side 1#"Shadoogie"...

    , an album by The Shadows (1961)
  • Shadows (Gordon Lightfoot album)
    Shadows (Gordon Lightfoot album)
    Shadows is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's 15th original album, released in 1982 on the Warner Brothers Records label. It peaked at #87 on the Billboard charts.The album marked another significant turning point in Lightfoot's musical evolution...

     (1982)
  • Shadows (Creepmime album) (1993)
  • Shadows (Spy Glass Blue album)
    Shadows (Spy Glass Blue album)
    Shadows is Spy Glass Blue's first full-length studio album. It was first released in May, 1996 on Pinnacle Records. Its second release was in September, 1997 on Organic Records.-Track listing:# "Thin And Leaner"# "Lodging"# "In Sultry Places"...

     (1996)
  • Shadows (Wagon Christ album)
    Shadows (Wagon Christ album)
    Shadows is an album by Luke Vibert under the alias Wagon Christ."Shadows" contains a sample from the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, titled "007 and Counting" on the original soundtrack recording.-Track listing:*CD version...

     (2004)
  • Shadows (Lynch album)
    Shadows (Lynch album)
    Shadows is the fourth studio album released by Japanese rock band Lynch. It was released on July 8, 2009 by Marginal Works in Japan. The album includes a DVD with the music video for the song "Shadowz," as well as a making-of the music video....

     (2009)
  • Shadows (Teenage Fanclub album) (2010)

Artists

  • The Shadow (rapper)
    The Shadow (rapper)
    Yoav Eliasi , commonly known by his stage name The Shadow , is an Israeli rap artist. He is part of the stable of artists on the label, TACT Records.-Background:...

    , an Israeli hip hop artist
  • The Shadows
    The Shadows
    The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...

    , a British guitar-based instrumental group who were also accompanists for Cliff Richard
  • DJ Shadow
    DJ Shadow
    Joshua Paul Davis better known as DJ Shadow is an American music producer, DJ and songwriter. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album Endtroducing....., which was constructed...

    , a turntablist musician, producer, and songwriter

Songs

  • "Shadow" (Burden Brothers song)
  • "Shadow" (Ashlee Simpson song)
  • "Shadows" (Sunny Day Real Estate song)
  • "Shadows" (The Getaway Plan song)
    Shadows (The Getaway Plan song)
    "Shadows" is the third single to be taken from The Getaway Plan's debut album Other Voices, Other Rooms. In Australia, only 1000 copies were made and the single is considered rare.-Track listings:CD Single# Shadows - 3:41# Melophobia - 3:46...

  • "Shadows", a song by A. J. McLean from Have It All
  • "Shadows", a song by Red from Innocence & Instinct
    Innocence & Instinct
    Innocence & Instinct is the second full-length concept album from American Christian metal band Red. The album was released on February 10, 2009 through Essential Records....

  • "Shadows", a song by Red House Painters from Ocean Beach
    Ocean Beach (album)
    -Double 10" vinyl release:-Release history:-Notes:* Additional musicians: Dan Barbee and Carrie Bradley.* Recorded and mixed at Coast Recorders, San Francisco....

  • "Shadow", a song by Britney Spears from In the Zone
    In the Zone
    In the Zone is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears, released on November 16, 2003, by Jive Records. Following the end of the Dream Within a Dream Tour in July 2002 and her break-up with Justin Timberlake, Spears announced she would take a six-month break from her...

  • "Shadows", a song by Rufus Wainwright from Poses
  • "Shadows", a song by Westlife from Where We Are
    Where We Are
    Where We Are is the ninth studio album and tenth album overall by the Irish boyband Westlife. It was released on 27 November 2009 in Ireland and 30 November 2009 in the UK through Syco Music...

  • "Shadows", a song by Dev from The Night the Sun Came Up
    The Night the Sun Came Up
    The Night the Sun Came Up is the debut studio album by United States recording artist Dev. It was released on September 2, 2011 by Universal Republic in association with Island Records. Dev worked exclusively with American alternative hip hop production duo The Cataracs, who helmed the production...

  • "Shadow", a song by Demi Lovato
    Demi Lovato
    "She’s got the range, the full emotional spectrum, incredible control… Vocally, she’s the best thing Disney’s had since Christina Aguilera."—Producer Toby Gad on Demi Lovato's vocals...

  • "Shadows", a song by New Trolls
    New Trolls
    New Trolls are an Italian progressive rock band, known for their fusion of rock and classical music. Their history is filled with line-up changes, band name changes and struggles between band members.-History:...

  • "The Shadow", a song by The Prodigy
    The Prodigy
    The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s...

  • "Shadows", a song by Eric Prydz
    Eric Prydz
    Eric Sheridan Prydz is a Swedish DJ and producer based in London, United Kingdom. The pronunciation of his surname is often questioned; it is pronounced "prids", but when under his alias, Pryda, it is pronounced "pride-ah"...

  • "Shadows", a song by Renegade Five
    Renegade Five
    Renegade Five is a rock band from Karlstad, Sweden. The band consists of Daniel Johansson , Håkan Fredriksson , Per Lidén , Jimmy Lundin and Marcus Nowak . The band formed in 2005 and is currently signed to Bonnier Amigo. Their first single, "Shadows" was released in early 2008, followed by their...

  • "Shadows", a demo song by Deep Purple that was cut from Shades of Deep Purple
    Shades of Deep Purple
    Shades of Deep Purple is the debut album by English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1968 on Parlophone in the United Kingdom and Tetragrammaton in the United States....


Radio and television

  • The Shadow
    The Shadow
    The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante in the pulps, which carried over to the airwaves as a "wealthy, young man about town"...

    , the pulp fiction series of 1940s radio
  • Shadows (TV series)
    Shadows (TV series)
    Shadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three seasons, it featured ghost and horror dramas for children....

    , a 1970s British supernatural television drama series aimed at older children
  • "Shadow" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • "Shadows" (The X-Files)
  • Shadow (Babylon 5)
    Shadow (Babylon 5)
    The Shadows are a fictional alien species in the science fiction television series Babylon 5. Their homeworld is Z'ha'dum. In contrast to the Vorlons, whose philosophy is represented by the question "Who are you?", that of the Shadows is represented by the question "What do you want?", centering...

    , a race of extraterrestrials in the Babylon 5 universe
  • "Shadow" (Supernatural), an episode of the television series Supernatural
  • Shadow, a television ident for BBC Two
    BBC Two
    BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...

    , from the 1991-2001 series.
  • Shadows (Highlander: The Series)

Science and technology

  • Shadow (psychology)
    Shadow (psychology)
    In Jungian psychology, the shadow or "shadow aspect" is a part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts. It is one of the three most recognizable archetypes, the others being the anima and animus and the persona...

    , a part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses
  • Shadow (OS/2)
    Shadow (OS/2)
    In the graphical Workplace Shell of the OS/2 operating system, a shadow is an object that represents another object.A shadow as a stand-in for any other object on the desktop, such as a document, an application, a folder, a hard disk, a network share or removable medium, or a printer. A target...

    , a OS/2 file linking strategy
  • Acoustic shadow
    Acoustic Shadow
    An acoustic shadow is an area through which sound waves fail to propagate, due to topographical obstructions or disruption of the waves via phenomena such as wind currents. A gobo refers to a movable acoustic isolation panel and that makes an acoustic shadow. As one website refers to it, "an...

    , acoustical phenomenon caused by an object placed in front of a source of sound
  • The Shadow, a Spirit DataCine without a Kodak front-end optics and CCD
  • Shadows (software)
    Shadows (software)
    Shadows is a software package for the calculation and drawing of sundials and astrolabes, available as a freeware in its base level.It has been developed by François Blateyron, software developer and amateur astronomer, who made it available on Internet since 1997 and continues to improve it...

     is a software package for designing sundials and astrolabes

Vehicles

  • Dodge Shadow
    Dodge Shadow
    For 1987, Chrysler Corporation introduced two new compact cars, the Dodge Shadow and the Plymouth Sundance , intended to replace the Dodge Charger - Dodge Omni and Plymouth Turismo - Plymouth Horizon, respectively...

    , a Chrysler Corporation automobile
  • Shadow (motorbike), a Honda motorcycle
  • AAI RQ-7 Shadow, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the United States Army
  • Shadow Racing Cars
    Shadow Racing Cars
    Shadow Racing Cars was a Formula One and sports car racing team, founded and initially based in the United States although later Formula One operations were run from Britain.-1971-1972: Early years in CanAm series:...

    , former Formula One and CanAm racing team of Don Nichols and Jackie Oliver
  • USS Shadow III (SP-102)
    USS Shadow III (SP-102)
    USS Shadow III was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.Shadow III was built as a civilian motorboat in 1916 by the Purdy Boat Company, at Miami, Florida. The U.S. Navy purchased Shadow III from Purdy on 12 June 1917 for use as a patrol boat...

    , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919

Athletes

  • Lance Hoyt
    Lance Hoyt
    Lance Hoyt is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling as Lance Archer. He is best known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time NWA World Tag Team Champion with Kid Kash while the title was under the TNA banner...

     or Shadow, a professional wrestler
  • Norvell Austin
    Norvell Austin
    Norvell Austin is a retired American professional wrestler who made his debut in the late 1960s. Austin worked for most of his career in the Southern United States, most often in tag team competition. Norvell Austin is most famous for teaming with Sputnik Monroe in one of the first "mixed races"...

     or Shadow, a professional wrestler
  • Jefferson King
    Jefferson King
    Jefferson King is a British bodybuilder, best known for playing Shadow in the ITV show Gladiators.-Gladiators:Shadow was legendary for his icy stare and his record in the 'Duel' event. He once hit his opponent so hard in this event that the ends of the pugil stick were clearly damaged...

     or Shadow, an athlete from Gladiators

Fictional characters

  • Shadow (Final Fantasy)
  • Shadow the Hedgehog
    Shadow the Hedgehog
    is a character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Shadow is an artificially-created life form. His trademark hover shoes propel him at extreme speeds that rival those of Sonic, and with a Chaos Emerald he has the ability to distort time and space using "Chaos Control." Often referred to as being...

  • Shadow, a character in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
    Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
    Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey is a 1993 American remake of the 1963 film The Incredible Journey, which was based on the best-selling novel The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford. Directed by Duwayne Dunham, it was released on February 3, 1993...

  • Shadow, the main character in American Gods
    American Gods
    American Gods is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on a mysterious and taciturn protagonist, Shadow. It is Gaiman's fourth prose novel, being preceded by Good Omens ,...

  • The Shadow, the personification of Death in The Demonata
    The Demonata
    The Demonata is a series of books by best selling author Darren Shan. It deals with the world of demons . The series is told by three different protagonists: Grubbs Grady, Kernel Fleck, and Bec MacConn, the latter of which is the first female protagonist in a Darren Shan book...

  • Shadow Geist, a character from the game Street Fighter EX2

See also

  • Shadow Cabinet
    Shadow Cabinet
    The Shadow Cabinet is a senior group of opposition spokespeople in the Westminster system of government who together under the leadership of the Leader of the Opposition form an alternative cabinet to the government's, whose members shadow or mark each individual member of the government...

    , members of the parliamentary opposition party
  • Shadow password
    Shadow password
    In computing, Unix-like operating systems use the shadow password database mechanism to increase the security level of passwords by restricting all but highly privileged users' access to encrypted password data...

     (Unix' /etc/shadow)
  • Shadow tax, Sausalito, California
    Sausalito, California
    Sausalito is a San Francisco Bay Area city, in Marin County, California, United States. Sausalito is south-southeast of San Rafael, at an elevation of 13 feet . The population was 7,061 as of the 2010 census. The community is situated near the northern end of the Golden Gate Bridge, and prior to...

  • Mighty Shadow
    Mighty Shadow
    Winston Bailey , better known by his stage name The Mighty Shadow or Shadow, is a calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago. Bailey was born in Belmont, a suburb of Port of Spain in Trinidad, but grew up in Les Coteaux, Tobago with his grandparents...

    , a Trinidad calypsonian
  • M. Shadows
    M. Shadows
    Matthew Charles Sanders , better known by his stage name M. Shadows, is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and founding member for the American metal band Avenged Sevenfold.-Early life and musical beginnings:...

    , lead singer for Avenged Sevenfold
  • Shadda
    Shadda
    Shadda , is one of the diacritics used with the Arabic alphabet, marking a long consonant . It is functionally equivalent to writing a consonant twice in the orthographies of languages like Latin, Italian, Swedish, and Ancient Greek, and is thus rendered in Latin script in most schemes of Arabic...

    , an Arabic diacritic mark

  • Shado (disambiguation)
  • Shadowing (disambiguation)
  • Shadowman (disambiguation)
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