shadowing

plural shadowings

1. countableuncountableThe effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
2. countableuncountableThe situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
3. countableuncountableespionageSecretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
4. countableuncountableA faint representation; an adumbration.

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

   1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture

5. countableuncountablecomputingThe technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.
6. countableuncountableeducationA work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shadow