half-light

Preposition: of

• dawn: We stared across to the west again, and through the half-light of dawn came six wavering flashes.
• morning: The overhead lights in the kitchen mix with the half-light of morning coming in through the windows.

Adjective modifier

• eerie: Regions of the world directly affected by the eclipse are plunged into an eerie half-light.
• gloomy: It appeared to emanate from Mrs Grenfell but in the gloomy half-light, no-one was quite sure.
• electric: The place was deserted and there was only that strange humming silence and electric half-light that you get in city centers late at night.
• early: Up the sail goes, colorless in the early half-light, a tan gunter lug, on a honey-coloured wooden spar.

Modifies a noun

• radius: Provide a measure of the half-light radius for each galaxy.

Noun used with modifier

• morning: Most of the film takes place in the dark, in dusty barns, or at best in misty morning half-light.