backshine

English edit

Etymology edit

From back +‎ shine.

Noun edit

backshine (uncountable)

Reflected light.
- 1973, Edward Grant Brame, Applied spectroscopy reviews:
  [...] laser beam is a Brewster window for reducing backshine of the laser beam into the detectors placed behind the observation windows.
- 1991, Yoshihiko Ikegami, The Empire of signs: semiotic essays on Japanese culture:
  He also speaks of the manifold images which these signs evoke as 'backshine.'
- 2011, Vernor Vinge, The Children of the Sky:
  The Eyes Above's shadow was clearly visible now, surrounded by just a halo of backshine.

Verb edit

backshine (third-person singular simple present backshines, present participle backshining, simple past and past participle backshone or backshined)

(transitive, intransitive) To reflect light; shine back.