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opaque
/oʊˈpeɪk/
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What does opaque mean?
adjective
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- (figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
More meanings (5)
adjective
- (figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
- Describes a data type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
noun
- Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
- (obsolete) An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
verb
- To make, render (more) opaque.
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IPA pronunciation
/oʊˈpeɪk/
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The sky had grown brighter, the setting moon was becoming pale and opaque in the luminous blue of the day.
The night, clear and starry, sparkled darkly, and the opaque, lightless patches shifting slowly against the low stars were the drifting islets.
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She hastens to the test tube whose contents are veiled under an opaque cover with the same alacrity as to the open tube.
As the disease progresses, the conjunctiva becomes more vascular, the photophobia intolerable, the cornea itself becomes opaque, and sometimes exhibits a vascular appearance.
Here he stayed till the thin shades thickened to opaque obscurity, and the loft-door became an oblong of gray light—the only visible shape around.