turbidity
noun
the state or quality of being clouded or opaque, usually because of suspended matter or stirred-up sediment.
Example Sentences
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A microscopic examination of cholera stools shows that their turbidness depends chiefly upon desquamated epithelium, with which is mixed white corpuscles and bacteria.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Yet, in the midst of the turbidness of adolescence, I was still two distinct personalities.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
Condensation in the whole body of the trade is usually in the form of turbidness or mistiness, a bank or incipient stratus, without cirri.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
The turbidness of it is not mud precisely.
From Rollo in Geneva by Jacob Abbott
Any turbidness or impurity in the water will injure the clearness of the sweetmeats.
From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Eliza Leslie
