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opacity
/oʊˈpæsɪti/
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What does opacity mean?
noun
- The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.
- The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding.
- A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.
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noun
- An opaque area.
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In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts.
The waggon and its load rolled no longer on the horizontal division between clearness and opacity.
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It was blowing a hurricane, the temperature was -70 F., and the drift-snow was so thick as to be wall-like in opacity.
A pointer had suddenly considerable opacity of one eye, without any known cause: the other eye was not in the least degree affected.
Blair relates the history of a case of vicarious menstruation attended with conjunctivitis and opacity of the cornea.