Obscuration
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Obscuration is a noun meaning The state of being obscured.
Meaning
The state of being obscured.
More Meanings
- A unit of measurement used in particular for smoke detectors which respond to absorption of light by smoke, in percent absorption per unit length, e.g. % obs/ft, % obs/m.
Example Sentences
At eleven the room darkened, the moon having climbed behind a tree. But the tree being small, and the moon's ascension rapid, this transit was brief, and this obscuration.
Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind!
Word Forms
- obscurations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include obstruction, concealment, obstructive, blockage, obfuscation, fouling.
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