Penumbra (disambiguation)

The penumbra is the part of a shadow where the light source is only partially blocked.

Penumbra may also refer to:

Entertainment

• Penumbra (band), a French gothic metal band
• Penumbra Diffuse, the second studio album by American progressive metal band Canvas Solaris
• "Penumbra", a song by John Ireland
• "Penumbra" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), a 1999 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Penumbra (telenovela), Mexican telenovela
• Penumbra (World of Darkness), a region in the World of Darkness line of role-playing games
• Penumbra (series), a series of video games by Frictional Games consisting of:
• Penumbra: Black Plague
• Penumbra: Overture
• Penumbra: Requiem

Other

• Penumbra (law), a metaphor for rights implied in the United States Constitution
• Penumbra (medicine), surviving tissue at the margin of an ischemic event (such as a stroke) which is in danger of hypoxia and subsequent cell death
• Penumbra (Sun), the ring-shaped semi-bright region of a sunspot that surrounds the darker umbra
• Penumbral lunar eclipse, an eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes through the Earth's penumbra
• Billbergia 'Penumbra', a hybrid cultivar of the genus Billbergia in the Bromeliad family

See also

• Penumbra Theatre Company, an African American theatre in Saint Paul, Minnesota