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translucency

  • a word derived from translucent.
    translucent
    adjective
    permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible.

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The researchers used 921 videos from the training library to teach two different AI models to detect AOM by looking at features of the tympanic membrane, including shape, position, color and translucency.

From Science Daily Mar. 4, 2024

Instead, they settled on using a 3D print, which still had to be customized to capture the intricacies and skin-like translucency of a shell.

From Seattle Times Jun. 23, 2022

The meat should begin to flake and be opaque with a slight translucency in the middle.

From Washington Post Nov. 2, 2021

In early poems like “Surprised by Evening,” “Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River,” “The Shadow Goes Away,” “The Grief of Men,” one sees the translucency with which he traces the patterns of spiritual renewal.

From New York Times Dec. 14, 2018

His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency.

From "1984" by George Orwell