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Meanings of opacity in English

Portuguese
opacidade
Catalan
opacitat

The quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light.

      opacidade
      Portuguese
      opacidade
      Catalan
      opacitat
      Spanish
      opacidad

      The phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation.

            opacidade
            Usage of opacity in English
            1
            But the revisions also exposed another problem in Chinese economic data: opacity.
            Reuters
            2
            Apparent opacity and color analyses suggest that the films present high transparency.
            Pubmed
            3
            Cataracts were graded on the basis of the size of lens opacity.
            Pubmed
            4
            Before him, in place of a horizon, was a vast livid opacity.
            The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
            5
            Transparency, opacity and colour were explained by Newton on the following principles.
            The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters
            6
            Within minutes, I found an opacity suggesting the old healed ulnar break.
            Bones on Ice
            7
            You can pick blending modes, adjust opacity and even add layer masks.
            Wired
            8
            And it has precious little to do with your border wall's opacity.
            Wired
            9
            Move the appropriate finger to adjust color, opacity, settings and brush size.
            Wired
            10
            The risk and opacity of that market helped fuel the 2008 financial crisis.
            Reuters
            11
            These results confirm the previously reported association between myopia, hyperopia, and nuclear opacity.
            Pubmed
            12
            Rafter's ambitious goal is to break the notorious opacity of the higher-education market.
            Wired
            13
            The corneal opacity disappeared within a week but alkaline phosphatase remained persistently low.
            Pubmed
            14
            The real enemy, the real fight is between opacity and transparency.
            Reuters
            15
            Essentially, stored light involves using lasers to tune the opacity of a gas.
            Wired
            16
            Through the next several images the opacity enlarged, changed shape, diminished.
            Grave Secrets
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            Translations for opacity
            Portuguese
            opacidade
            Catalan
            opacitat
            Spanish
            opacidad
            Opacity through the time
            Opacity across language varieties
            United States of America
            Common
            United Kingdom
            Less common