shadowing

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

shadowing

1. presentparticipleandgerundofshadow

Noun

shadowing(countableanduncountable,pluralshadowings)

1. The effect of beingshadowed(in the sense of blocked), as from alight sourceorradiotransmission.
2. The situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually throughearphones).
3. (espionage)Secretlyor discreetlytrackingorfollowingsomeone, keeping undersurveillance.
4. Afaintrepresentation;anadumbration.
   • 1871,Edward Burnett Tylor,Primitive Culture:

     There are[…]in savage theologyshadowings,quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity.

5. (computing)The technique ofcopyingROMcontents toRAMto allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initializedmemorylocationsare switched in on the sameblockofaddresses.
6. (education)A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.

Derived terms

• work shadowing

Translations

the effect of being shadowed, as from a light source or radio transmission

• Finnish:varjostuminen
• French:effet de masquem

speech repetition

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Nói như vẹt／Nói như vẹt(zh)(yīngwǔ xuéshé),Cùng đọc／Cùng đọc(gēndú)

• Finnish:kuulluntoistaminen
• German:Schattenlesenn
• Japanese:シャドーイング(shadōingu),シャドウイング(shadouingu)
• Russian:шэ́доуингm(šɛ́douing)
• Turkish:gölgeleme tekniği

Learning about a job as a shadow to a competent worker

• Finnish:varjostaminen(fi)
• Serbo-Croatian:hospitiranjen

References

• “shadowing”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.