dusk has definitions from the field of physics
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[ noun ] the time of day immediately following sunset

Examples

"he loved the twilight" "they finished before the fall of night"

Used in print

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

His first model arrived at dusk .

The surgeon came_back at dusk , cut the vein of a second pigeon , again washed out the eye .

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

She stopped at the Surcliffes ' after dusk , and had a Scotch-and-soda .

Related terms

hour night evening

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[ noun ] (physics) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

Synonyms

twilight

Used in print

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

Far_off , in the dusk , he heard voices singing , muffled but strong .

He was standing there , he thought , in Virginia , in the thickening dusk , in a costly greatcoat that had belonged_to another Jew .

(Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)

He helped Kate and Juanita enlarge the flower_garden in the side_yard , where they sometimes sat in the still evenings watching the last fat bees working against the summer 's purple dusk .

Related terms

light semidarkness

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