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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
- And so we found an association between this opacity at the back of the lens and short-sightedness, or myopia.
- ‘We see an opacity asymmetry in the stellar occultations,’ Colwell reported.
- However you took the offending article down before I had chance to snort with derision at its fubar logic and textual opacity.
- 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.
- Instead, the asyndetic form of these texts promotes the opacity and disorientation of modularity.
- In Reznikoff, transparency - in the mode of reportage - snowballs into opacity.
- 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.
- Cetearyl, cetyl, and stearyl alcohol also a waxy emollient that adds opacity to color Simple Skin Beauty
- Isn't our sense of the opacity of translation also the sense of the rebuffing wind in Celan's poem?
- 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.
