Umbra (disambiguation)

The umbra is the innermost and darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding body.

Umbra may also refer to:

Brands and companies

Fictional characters, locations and objects

Music

Other uses

  • Shade (mythology) or umbra, the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld
  • Umbra (fish), a genus of freshwater fishes of the family Umbridae
  • Umbra (poets), a collective of young black writers who published Umbra Magazine
  • Umbra, the circular dark region of a sunspot that is surrounded by the semi-bright penumbra

See also

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