shadowcasting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A technique in which an incident ray at a small angle to the horizontal casts a shadow, thus making an object easier to see.
Uncountable
noun
The live amateur performance of a film by a group of people at the same time as watching the film.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A different shadowcasting arrangement results when light rays are oriented oblique to the picture plane. In this situation actual and bearing rays appear to vanish in perspective."
- "One of the most common of these gay male participations with Rocky Horror is 'shadowcasting', a type of camp performance in which the actor dresses in costume as a character and mimics his or her actions in front of the screen."