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Opacity   /oʊpˈæsəti/   Listen
Opacity

noun
1.
The phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation.
2.
Incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning.  Synonym: opaqueness.
3.
The quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light.  Synonym: opaqueness.



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"Opacity" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this structure, in a specimen of obsidian from Mexico, which is shaded and zoned, like the finest agate, with numerous, straight, parallel layers, more or less opaque and white, or almost perfectly glassy; the degree of opacity and glassiness depending on the number of microscopically minute, flattened air-cells; in this case, it is scarcely possible to doubt but that the mass, to which the fragment belonged, must have been subjected to some, probably prolonged, action, causing the ...
— Volcanic Islands • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Opacity" :   physical phenomenon, murkiness, fogginess, opaque, transparency, clarity, cloudiness, quality, indistinctness, incomprehensibility, muddiness, softness, blurriness, fuzziness


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