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.
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  • 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
  • Yet that broader context itself concerns sex, inasmuch as the word “sex” provides an apposite example of textual opacity — that is, of the reader’s inescapable agency in construing meaning from contextual markers. AKMA’s Random Thoughts
  • Opacity of the eye lens can be induced by deficiency of certain vitamins.
  • His earlier poems are often concise to the point of opacity, full to the brim with emotion - yet with the source of that emotion always left unvoiced.
  • The play of light and opacity is analogous to the relation of gaze and screen: "It is always that gleam of light — it lay at the heart of my little story — it is always this which prevents me, at each point, from being a screen, from making the light appear as an iridescence that overflows it" (96). The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster
  • The dark glass wall, on the entrance facade, shifts between transparency and a dark, reflective opacity, depending on lighting conditions and the spectator's point of view.
  • Its dramatic nuances were often generalised to the point of opacity.
  • Hot and cool colors come together explosively within individual dishes, offering various effects of density and opacity.
  • Vehicles loomed out of opacity, the headlamps surrounded by auras like distant moons, ground cautiously by, and receded into obscurity. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • Even very small globules of fat can scatter light, giving the ice cream the opacity that customers associate with high quality.
  • BUT to compare Windows and Linux and make a statement like the above about opacity is ignorant at best misleading and deceitful at worse. Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  • In particular, I think that the morphological opacity is quite natural (compare Steven Pinker’s example of claiming a baseball hitter “flied out” instead of “flew out”), with only minimal help from your “differentiation” point. Short Sale Your House! (Don’t short sell it.) « Motivated Grammar
  • The photoinduced side effects of all these drugs were, in particular, changes in the skin pigmentation, corneal opacity, cataract formation and retinopathy.
  • Paint with vectors that resemble natural - media brush strokes controlling bristle characteristics and paint opacity.
  • That slight opacity translates into more visual impact for visitors once they step inside. Gehry Leaves the Risks to the Kids
  • The cult of transparency leads ultimately to opacity.
  • Shifting planes of various materials and degrees of opacity create spaces that expand and contract as needed.
  • Applying acrylics to the acetate with bamboo brushes, Stone controls viscosity and opacity while leaving the edges of the transparent film unpainted.
  • These stripes often alternate between dense opacity and a milky translucence that barely hides the underlying layers.
  • The skin of his buildings employs a full palette of optical effects - transparency, translucency, opacity and reflectivity - in a way that seems subtly integrated with the city's structure.
  • The next day he gave the following testimony: "I the undersigned, can certify on oath, that five years ago, I examined Mary Côté'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
  • One indirect effect of this information opacity: spotting price anomalies is difficult at best.
  • Its mass and opacity, rather than walls, separate the main bedroom from the living area.
  • It currently lays down FDA-approved materials for radiopacity on stents or other surface coatings to improve stent characteristics.
  • But as its opacity is a double edged sword, it is also much more susceptible to rent seeking as is evidenced in the form of the proposed Waxmen-Markey bill whereby 85% of the emissions permits would be allocated as opposed to auctioned off. Archive 2009-05-01
  • An Archaeology of Socialism, despite its difficult language and occasional conceptual opacity, deserves to be read.
  • This chimes with what this newspaper has been saying for years about the opacity and erosive effects of charges. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wikinvest co-founder Parker Conrad asserted in his pitch that Wikinvest and others might eventually obviate the financial services providers that rely on consumers not paying attention, or having opacity drive revenue in their products. Ben Mangan: Fintech Leaves Fake-o-nomics Behind
  • It explains at once causticity and non-causticity, transparency and opacity, colour and the absence of colours.
  • Its crucial feature is a quality of opacity that forces us to think; it must ‘tease us out of thought’ (Keats).
  • You might have noticed that there appears to be a bit of variation in the opacity and colour of the neon green perspex used throughout the case.
  • Users of the map can also adjust the colour mapping/opacity of the choropleth layers and size/colour of the points layer. US Election Results Google Map
  • Their opacity was a contributor to the financial crisis because it was very hard to figure out the counterparty risks in the system. The Race To Finish Financial Reform
  • Shifting planes of various materials and degrees of opacity create spaces that expand and contract as needed.
  • It is possible to make glazes with every degree of transparency or opacity, such as semitransparent or semiopaque. 5. Simple glaze theory
  • Fade out all matched elements by adjusting their opacity and firing an optional callback after completion.
  • Galia Amsel, working with translucence and opacity, pushes grey and white glass to its densest, tapering her squared slabs towards narrow, light edges.
  • The major complication was corneal endothelial edema, iritis, posterior capsule opacity and pupillary capture.
  • Opacity of the lens is readily visible, especially in advanced cases.
  • Our President believes in opacity, works in secret, tells us nothing, and when we see the photo ops, its only corporate and banking power sitting with him at the table. Matthew Yglesias » Transparent Negotiations
  • The commingling of transparency and opacity is handled with remarkable skill.
  • Applying acrylics to the acetate with bamboo brushes, Stone controls viscosity and opacity while leaving the edges of the transparent film unpainted.
  • An abdominal 3-way radiograph the day of admission revealed air fluid levels as well as a new opacity in his peripheral loft lower lung field.
  • Dark to the point of opacity that afternoon, the windows were now, a couple of days later, a dead, flat black. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
  • This ingenuous charm contrasts with Mason's greater worldliness, greater opacity.
  • And Ilya Bolotowsky's neoplastic, three-sided, painted wood sculpture "Trylon" 1977 is a masterly exploration of primaries, opacity and transparency. Of a Decade and a Dollar
  • To Hamann, it was obvious that the Age of Reason - which, to his mind, was an age of deepest darkness - required a prose of almost insoluble opacity.
  • The phantom and needles then were radiographed using routine radiology departmental chest exposures to determine the radiopacity of surgical needles on a simulated patient.
  • ‘Our LCX wires eliminate these problems because they consist of a nitinol or stainless-steel coil that is plated with, rather than welded to, gold or platinum for radiopacity,’ he says.
  • She put on a coat, wrapped a scarf around her ears, opened the front door - and stepped into opacity. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
  • This is no easy feat, given the difficulty and opacity of Howe's poetry, and Back begins her introduction by addressing this very issue.
  • Despite its opacity, certain qualities of the proposed constitution shine through.
  • The books are printed on papers that match the weight, shade, caliper, and opacity of those earlier editions.
  • Multiple layers of nets stretched over the structural frame create a dramatic and ever-changing play of opacity and translucency as the viewer moves in and around the installation.
  • Isn't our sense of the opacity of translation also the sense of the rebuffing wind in Celan's poem?
  • Cetearyl, cetyl, and stearyl alcohol also a waxy emollient that adds opacity to color Simple Skin Beauty
  • There is a continuous interplay between transparency and white opacity, view and closure, partly because the presence of neighbours on both sides who seem too close to the client.
  • In Reznikoff, transparency - in the mode of reportage - snowballs into opacity.
  • Instead, the asyndetic form of these texts promotes the opacity and disorientation of modularity.
  • It acts as an intermediate space between the natural world and the artificial, and its effects of light and shadow, transparency, translucency and even opacity alter constantly with weather, time and season.
  • However you took the offending article down before I had chance to snort with derision at its fubar logic and textual opacity.
  • ‘We see an opacity asymmetry in the stellar occultations,’ Colwell reported.
  • Not only offering the means to achieving differential gradations of colour and opacity, the process can also achieve true colour reproduction of photographs and complex graphics.
  • The treatment of the walls varies - in the scale of the zigzags, in colour and in opacity - in order to register the different scales and features of the adjacent landscape.
  • With this method, radiopacity of the physis of the tibial tubercle is used as an indicator of skeletal maturity of the knee since it is the last physis of the knee to bridge.
  • A long list of indictments might indeed be brought against the eye -- its opacity, its want of symmetry, its lack of achromatism, its partial blindness. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
  • Most common finding is bronchopneumonia with patchy air-space areas of increased opacity.
  • Nor does it follow from hence that spirits are nothing: for they have dimensions and are therefore really bodies; though that name in common speech be given to such bodies only as are visible or palpable; that is, that have some degree of opacity: but for spirits, they call them incorporeal, which is a name of more honour, and may therefore with more piety be attributed to God Leviathan
  • Opacity of the eye lens can be induced by deficiency of certain vitamins.
  • The Helena's envelope of floor-to-ceiling glass, wrap-around windows, and metal panels weaves a shimmering pattern of opacity and reflection.
  • Speakers at the seminar said increase in lens opacity might lead to blurred vision, sensitivity to light or glare, nearsightedness and distorted images.
  • The actual meaning of the term cataract is waterfall and refers to the opacity of the crystalline lens of the eye. Natural Remedies for Curing Cataract
  • The coloration of transparent species, the lack of countershading, and the opacity of guts in deep-sea species are all hypothesized to be defenses against detection by bioluminescence.
  • Opacity of the eye lens can be induced by deficiency of certain vitamins.
  • And so we found an association between this opacity at the back of the lens and short-sightedness, or myopia.
  • Within these dense geometries, he achieved virtuosic manipulations of optically mixed color, conjuring intriguing tensions between effects of transparency and opacity, flatness and volume.
  • He looked at Frances and she saw how his eyes had the same blue opacity. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
  • The main body of the object absorbs light, but the cuts reflect it, and an interplay can be set up between opacity and transparency.
  • The Phone Tools content rendering makes use of advanced graphics techniques for image opacity, transparency, zooming and panning.
  • This is where famous and important people being grilled hide now: in boringness, in an opacity of language so thick that following them is actually impossible. After the Crash, a Crashing Bore
  • Patients with radiopacity of three physes were defined as having bridging or closed physes.
  • However, Gavzy said Opacity, a funeral director in Kenilworth, touted his military service during his election campaign three years ago. Heroes or Villains?
  • Cultural criticism, by contrast, not only valorizes the refractoriness, opacity, and allusive metaphoricity of the avant-garde aesthetic, it also incarnates these same qualities.
  • Lower bulk reduces opacity. Higher bulk will increase the overall thickness of a book. Therefore, it helps to know a paper's measure in pages per inch (caliper).
  • Not only offering the means to achieving differential gradations of colour and opacity, the process can also achieve true colour reproduction of photographs and complex graphics.

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