English noun: opacity |
1. | opacity (phenomenon) the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | physical phenomenon |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | optical opacity, radio-opacity, radiopacity |
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| Antonyms | transparence, transparency |
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2. | opacity (attribute) incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning |
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| Synonyms | opaqueness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | incomprehensibility |
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3. | opacity (attribute) the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light |
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| Synonyms | opaqueness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | quality |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | blurriness, cloudiness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, muddiness, murkiness, softness |
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| Attribute | opaque |
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| Antonyms | uncloudedness, clarity, clearness |
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