darkside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: astronomy
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
Etymology: From dark + side. Sense 2.1 (“side that is evil”) was popularized by the film Star Wars (1977; later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) where the term was used to describe the aspect of a metaphysical power called the Force which could be used to act aggressively and perpetrate evil.
Compound parts: dark
side
Inflected forms:
form: darksides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dark side
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dark-side
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The side of something that is in darkness or unlit, or has less illumination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She checked their orbital position. She would have perhaps ten more minutes in darkside. The earth itself was a massive radiation shield between the station and the sun, and she would be perfectly safe.
This paper describes a hydrogen–oxygen regenerative fuel cell (RFC) energy storage system based on high temperature solid oxide fuel (SOFC) technology. […] The system functions as a secondary battery and is applicable to darkside energy storage for solar photovoltaics.
The spacecraft requirement stems from the need for spacecraft to conserve heat, and thus battery power, when not exposed to sunlight ("darkside"), to reflect heat when facing the Sun, and, on occasion, to emit excess heat on the darkside.
gloss: The side of something that is metaphorically dark, i.e. evil, distressing or otherwise undesirable; the negative aspect of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: Near-synonym: downside
[B]lack metal is by definition concerned with the occult as seen in its lyrical fixation with Satan or darkside tribal paganism.
"Why horror?" she'd ask, adding to her opinion that, "What sells is love stories, romance. A good drama." And so I'd ask myself, why indeed dwell into t[he] darkside of literature? Does it make me happy to figure out new ways to cause people's death?
People, the darkside already knows who we are, so it's not like we're blowing our cover, they just can't pinpoint us at any given time.
We are relieved to put the book aside or leave the theater, knowing that the monsters that these tales portray are not real. They are only creatures born somewhere in the darkside of a writer's psyche.
Of course our teachers in this lifetime have all been mainly from the darkside so it has been easy to propagate these lies. If nothing else, the first six volumes of this work should show us all just how much we have been duped and that just about everything we think we know or believe is a lie.
The film stumbles as its plot gets more complicated, introducing the house’s previous resident, evil warlock Isaac Izard (Kyle MacLachlan), Jonathan’s former partner-in-magic who turned to the dark side after an encounter with a demon named Azazel (Christian Calloway) during World War II.
This was the dream, that same damned recurrent dream, never quite the same dream—but on the same subject, night after night, chapter after chapter of the same story: as if he had bought a book of horror stories; they would all be on one theme, but told differently; that was the way with this string of darkside visions.
War inspired mob violence and pressure for suppressing dissent. The earliest and most encompassing example was the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the first six months of 1942. The fact that the ACLU report omitted reference to this colossal event suggests that lesser transgressions were similarly repressed in a collective effort to avoid the darkside of the American psyche.
Delving into the darkside of clients' lives has pulled me toward an exploration of the merging process which often develops within the therapeutic relationship.
When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
[P]revious finalists on the show have begun to speak out against issues they had to deal with when the cameras stopped filming. […] But just as the dark side of the genre threatened to overshadow any previous genuine highs, in 2019, buzz spread in the US around a talent show that had to be seen to be believed.
gloss: Synonym of farside (“the side of a moon that faces away from the planet that it orbits”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He did not give a damn; he had his own problems and considerations and, besides, the BUTTON and he would settle this once and for all on the fifth go-round and then he would press the BUTTON, on the darkside, let them sweat out this one and think they were getting through to him and the two of them would head back for Earth and a generation of peace and celebration.
Also shown at the bottom [of Figure 1] is the trajectory during the first encounter on 29 March 1974, which was a darkside pass with a closest approach distance from the surface of 723 km. […] The third encounter on 16 March 1975 was similar to the first, being a very close approach towards the darkside near the north polar region at a miss distance of 327 km.
On the lighter side, Cassini should be coming out of darkside soon and run smack-dab into the distress siren.
gloss: Synonym of nightside (“the side of a planet that faces away from the sun around which it orbits”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Terraport would be in darkside now, and her great lights would be fused into a single tiny eye winking mockery at him – if he chose to slide back his porthole screen.
The vehicle, in an equatorial orbit of 300 nautical miles, has a period of 2.1 hours establishing 0.7 hours of darkside operation and 1.4 hours of sunlight operation.
In the case of Copernicus [a lunar crater], during an eclipse three maxima in the brightness temperature were observed within the crater, whereas with the same resolution, only one maximum was seen 16 hours after sunset. Thus a careful comparison of darkside and eclipse infrared mapping may show differences which, in the case of the rock hypothesis, could be due to variations in the size distribution.
But that air was at its coldest—aphelion was the chilliest season everywhere on this chill and temperate world—and the mountains of that limb were lower. Currents of darkside air would begin to flow through the low passes into the relative warmth of the marsh country, and the ponderous wheel of air would roll again.
NOAA-lO is a terminator orbital satellite which leads WFOVSW channel to only a few days of darkside data in a whole year.
gloss: A style of electronic music, being a form of hardcore characterized by discordant sounds.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The label closely observed the shifts in techno during the 90s, being a staple source of ‘darkside’ hardcore in 1992.
1993 was the year that hardcore began to get more varied with different styles being made. One style known as "darkness" or "darkside" used less pianos and more darker sounding chords.
After some atonal washes and twitchy breakbeats, the track lurched to a sudden halt and – in a moment that still takes my breath away when I listen to it now – a brief snatch of the spidery, abstract electronics instantly recognisable from the Japan record leapt into the chasm, before being immediately consumed by viscous bass ooze and the synthetic screeches that were the sonic signatures of darkside Jungle.
Related words: brightside
lightside
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