Opacity

/oʊˈpæsɪti/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.
2. (uncountable) The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding.
3. (optics, countable) A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.
4. (countable) An opaque area.

Example Sentences

We could not see the sandbar due to the opacity of the muddy water.

The opacity of these decisions is troubling.

The opacity of a clean glass window is near zero.

This report concerns a child with Down's syndrome (mongolism) and bilateral congenital corneal opacities born into a family affected through three generations by Rieger's anomaly.

Scanty irregular opacities are not uncommonly observed on the chest roentgenogram in the absence of interstitial fibrosis of the lungs.

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• opacities

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