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/oʊˈpæsɪti/
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oʊˈpæsɪtiː
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Noun
The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.
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We could not see the sandbar due to the opacity of the muddy water.
The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding.
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The opacity of these decisions is troubling.
A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.
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The opacity of a clean glass window is near zero.
An opaque area.
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This report concerns a child with Down's syndrome (mongolism) and bilateral congenital corneal opacities born into a family affected through three generations by Rieger's anomaly.
Scanty irregular opacities are not uncommonly observed on the chest roentgenogram in the absence of interstitial fibrosis of the lungs.
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the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
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incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
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the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
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