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Meanings of translucency in English

Catalan
diafanitat

The quality of allowing light to pass diffusely.

diafanitat
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Examples for "translucence"
Examples for "translucence"
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While she watched, individual blades altered, rotated, disappeared or changed translucence.
Night of Knives
2
There was a gray translucence to the night as dawn approached.
Carrion comfort
3
A translucence blanketed everything, obliterating the names of boutiques and bistros.
Death du Jour
4
Their skin has a particular translucence, like a layer of nacre.
The apocalypse reader
5
Finally, the translucence revealed the smooth globe of the dungeon's interior.
The black prism
1
They quickly lose their peculiar glistening polish, their semitransparency is lost, and the natural tint of a pearl-like blue gives way to a dirty yellow.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
Usage of translucency in English
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For example, I was always fascinated by a translucency of the skin.
Cabinet of Curiosities
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In summary, the present study explored objective reference metrics to measure eggshell translucency.
Pubmed
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Marked iris translucency and foveal hypoplasia were present in all cases.
Pubmed
4
The mineral and organic substances it holds in suspension actually increase its translucency.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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Entire salmon filets that maintain near translucency from end to end?
Wired
6
Heat inactivates enzymes, but it also muddies the fruit's delicate color and translucency.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
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She had a window, but it had been frosted over into bare translucency.
Turn coat
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Ten meters after that, the translucency became more pronounced like quartz.
Stars rain down
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Where her skin was unmarked, it was pale almost to the point of translucency.
The Fireman
10
An odd translucency, a mistiness or cloudiness, enters the process.
Black house
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Yet they lacked colour to the point of translucency.
The Naked God
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The twilight deepened, though there was still the strange, glassy translucency of the snow-lit air.
Twilight in Italy
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Many, many artists, going back to the Middle Ages, depict a translucency of the skin.
Cabinet of Curiosities
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His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
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Recent data have suggested that fetal nuchal translucency (NT) is affected by fetal gender.
Pubmed
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Her face had paled to a shiny translucency.
Map of bones
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Translucency through the time