"backshine" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From back + shine.",
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          "ref": "1973, Edward Grant Brame, Applied spectroscopy reviews",
          "text": "[...] laser beam is a Brewster window for reducing backshine of the laser beam into the detectors placed behind the observation windows.",
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          "text": "He also speaks of the manifold images which these signs evoke as 'backshine.'",
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          "ref": "2011, Vernor Vinge, The Children of the Sky",
          "text": "The Eyes Above's shadow was clearly visible now, surrounded by just a halo of backshine.",
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        "Reflected light."
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      "form": "backshone",
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        "To reflect light; shine back."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To reflect light; shine back."
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