opacity
Photography. the proportion of the light that is absorbed by the emulsion on any given area of a film or plate.
obscurity of meaning.
mental dullness.
Medicine/Medical. an opaque spot or area in normally clear or transparent tissue, as a cataract of the eye.
Origin of opacity
1Other words from opacity
- non·o·pac·i·ty, noun, plural non·o·pac·i·ties.
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How to use opacity in a sentence
How publishers can solve their third-party data strugglesThird-party data struggles most when it comes to opacity in the source, recency, accuracy and relevance.
Last year, DiCarlo’s team published results that took on both the opacity of deep nets and their alleged inability to generalize.
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains | Anil Ananthaswamy | October 28, 2020 | Quanta MagazineIn return, the price to be paid is to give up certain information and accept the opacity of this type of campaign, in addition to the lack of control in certain aspects.
Google Smart Shopping Campaigns: Everything you need to know to get started | Manuel Vilella Salcedo | October 12, 2020 | Search Engine LandOn the contrary, we find an opacity we have to learn to deal with.
Google Smart Shopping Campaigns: Everything you need to know to get started | Manuel Vilella Salcedo | October 12, 2020 | Search Engine LandThrough its vaccine diplomacy, China hopes to soften the global anti-Beijing sentiment that grew at the start of the year because of its opacity over the origin of the coronavirus.
Butterfly Effect: Putin, Xi Are Trumping America at Vaccine Diplomacy | Charu Kasturi | October 8, 2020 | Ozy
The sombre vision of nature's secret laws is interdicted to man by the fatal opacity of surrounding things.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoThe first possesses the greatest opacity, while the second and third are most durable.
Field's Chromatography | George FieldAnatomical changes took place in the cornea, as evidenced by a white opacity.
Poisons: Their Effects and Detection | Alexander Wynter BlythThe blue sky is more beautiful because we know it is not painted opacity, but transparent.
More Pages from a Journal | Mark RutherfordIt may be she was not very visible; the double glasses of an open sash-window are almost equal to opacity.
Somehow Good | William de Morgan
British Dictionary definitions for opacity
/ (əʊˈpæsɪtɪ) /
the state or quality of being opaque
the degree to which something is opaque
an opaque object or substance
obscurity of meaning; unintelligibility
physics photog the ratio of the intensity of light incident on a medium, such as a photographic film, to that transmitted through the medium
logic philosophy the property of being an opaque context
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