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UK
/ɒpˈæsɪti/
]
[ US /oʊˈpæsəti/ ]
[ US /oʊˈpæsəti/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
- incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
- the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
How To Use opacity In A Sentence
- It explains at once causticity and non-causticity, transparency and opacity, colour and the absence of colours.
- Although the marks she makes with her brush or palette knife are rectangular in shape, their silhouettes are broken and their surfaces easily slip from opacity into transparency.
- We who depend on them for getting to know the literature of other parts of India would rather there weren't untranslated lumps of opacity in the text.
- The next day he gave the following testimony: “I the undersigned, can certify on oath, that five years ago, I examined Mary Cote's eyes, and found that the small-pox had produced opacity of the cornea of both, or the disease called leucoma. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
- Howeer, medially , there is a large opacity consistent with a left lower lobe pneumonia asterisk.
- Based on the principle of full flow extinction, this paper excogitated a pocketable opacity smoke meter.
- The midlung zone opacity is more prominent and has a more or less rounded, but poorly marginated contour suggesting the possibility of an abscess. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Others are blending barium sulfate or tungsten compounds into their material mix to add radiopacity to the extruded products, Shah says.
- The frequency range covered by the GBT extends from low frequencies where the opacity is relatively low (~ 0.008 nepers) to high frequencies where opacity is very high.
- Meridor said he exchanged a friendly greeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been one of the most vocal critics of Israel's policy of "opacity" -- refusing to confirm or deny reports that it has up to 200 nuclear warheads. JTA - Recent News