Definition of opacity in English:

opacity

noun ə(ʊ)ˈpasɪtioʊˈpæsədi

mass noun

1The quality of lacking transparency or translucence.
不透明；半透明
thinner paints need black added to increase opacity
稀一点的颜料需要加点黑色来减少透明度。
Example sentencesExamples
- There is a continuous interplay between transparency and white opacity, view and closure, partly because the presence of neighbours on both sides who seem too close to the client.
- Multiple layers of nets stretched over the structural frame create a dramatic and ever-changing play of opacity and translucency as the viewer moves in and around the installation.
- Although the marks she makes with her brush or palette knife are rectangular in shape, their silhouettes are broken and their surfaces easily slip from opacity into transparency.
- These stripes often alternate between dense opacity and a milky translucence that barely hides the underlying layers.
- The skin of his buildings employs a full palette of optical effects - transparency, translucency, opacity and reflectivity - in a way that seems subtly integrated with the city's structure.
- The Helena's envelope of floor-to-ceiling glass, wrap-around windows, and metal panels weaves a shimmering pattern of opacity and reflection.
- Speakers at the seminar said increase in lens opacity might lead to blurred vision, sensitivity to light or glare, nearsightedness and distorted images.
- The Phone Tools content rendering makes use of advanced graphics techniques for image opacity, transparency, zooming and panning.
- The photoinduced side effects of all these drugs were, in particular, changes in the skin pigmentation, corneal opacity, cataract formation and retinopathy.
- The main body of the object absorbs light, but the cuts reflect it, and an interplay can be set up between opacity and transparency.
- The treatment of the walls varies - in the scale of the zigzags, in colour and in opacity - in order to register the different scales and features of the adjacent landscape.
- It acts as an intermediate space between the natural world and the artificial, and its effects of light and shadow, transparency, translucency and even opacity alter constantly with weather, time and season.
- Within these dense geometries, he achieved virtuosic manipulations of optically mixed color, conjuring intriguing tensions between effects of transparency and opacity, flatness and volume.
- The dark glass wall, on the entrance facade, shifts between transparency and a dark, reflective opacity, depending on lighting conditions and the spectator's point of view.
- Shifting planes of various materials and degrees of opacity create spaces that expand and contract as needed.
- The cult of transparency leads ultimately to opacity.
- It explains at once causticity and non-causticity, transparency and opacity, colour and the absence of colours.
- Galia Amsel, working with translucence and opacity, pushes grey and white glass to its densest, tapering her squared slabs towards narrow, light edges.
- The commingling of transparency and opacity is handled with remarkable skill.
- Applying acrylics to the acetate with bamboo brushes, Stone controls viscosity and opacity while leaving the edges of the transparent film unpainted.
Synonyms
opaqueness, non-transparency, lack of transparency
cloudiness, filminess, haziness, mistiness, blur, blurredness, dirtiness, dinginess, muddiness, griminess, smeariness
1. 1.1 The quality of being obscure in meaning.
  the difficulty and opacity in Barthes' texts
  巴尔瑟斯作品的难度和晦涩。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Its crucial feature is a quality of opacity that forces us to think; it must ‘tease us out of thought’ (Keats).
  An Archaeology of Socialism, despite its difficult language and occasional conceptual opacity, deserves to be read.
  One indirect effect of this information opacity: spotting price anomalies is difficult at best.
  In Reznikoff, transparency - in the mode of reportage - snowballs into opacity.
  This is no easy feat, given the difficulty and opacity of Howe's poetry, and Back begins her introduction by addressing this very issue.
  To Hamann, it was obvious that the Age of Reason - which, to his mind, was an age of deepest darkness - required a prose of almost insoluble opacity.
  Despite its opacity, certain qualities of the proposed constitution shine through.
  Isn't our sense of the opacity of translation also the sense of the rebuffing wind in Celan's poem?
  Synonyms
  lack of clarity, obscurity, abstruseness, unclearness, density, impenetrability, enigma, unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, reconditeness

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French opacité, from Latin opacitas, from opacus 'darkened'.

Rhymes

audacity, capacity, fugacity, loquacity, mendacity, perspicacity, pertinacity, pugnacity, rapacity, sagacity, sequacity, tenacity, veracity, vivacity, voracity

Definition of opacity in US English:

opacity

nounōˈpasədēoʊˈpæsədi

1The condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness.
不透明；半透明
thinner paints need black added to increase opacity
稀一点的颜料需要加点黑色来减少透明度。
Example sentencesExamples
- There is a continuous interplay between transparency and white opacity, view and closure, partly because the presence of neighbours on both sides who seem too close to the client.
- The commingling of transparency and opacity is handled with remarkable skill.
- The main body of the object absorbs light, but the cuts reflect it, and an interplay can be set up between opacity and transparency.
- The Helena's envelope of floor-to-ceiling glass, wrap-around windows, and metal panels weaves a shimmering pattern of opacity and reflection.
- Although the marks she makes with her brush or palette knife are rectangular in shape, their silhouettes are broken and their surfaces easily slip from opacity into transparency.
- Speakers at the seminar said increase in lens opacity might lead to blurred vision, sensitivity to light or glare, nearsightedness and distorted images.
- Shifting planes of various materials and degrees of opacity create spaces that expand and contract as needed.
- The photoinduced side effects of all these drugs were, in particular, changes in the skin pigmentation, corneal opacity, cataract formation and retinopathy.
- It acts as an intermediate space between the natural world and the artificial, and its effects of light and shadow, transparency, translucency and even opacity alter constantly with weather, time and season.
- Galia Amsel, working with translucence and opacity, pushes grey and white glass to its densest, tapering her squared slabs towards narrow, light edges.
- These stripes often alternate between dense opacity and a milky translucence that barely hides the underlying layers.
- Applying acrylics to the acetate with bamboo brushes, Stone controls viscosity and opacity while leaving the edges of the transparent film unpainted.
- Multiple layers of nets stretched over the structural frame create a dramatic and ever-changing play of opacity and translucency as the viewer moves in and around the installation.
- The dark glass wall, on the entrance facade, shifts between transparency and a dark, reflective opacity, depending on lighting conditions and the spectator's point of view.
- The Phone Tools content rendering makes use of advanced graphics techniques for image opacity, transparency, zooming and panning.
- The treatment of the walls varies - in the scale of the zigzags, in colour and in opacity - in order to register the different scales and features of the adjacent landscape.
- It explains at once causticity and non-causticity, transparency and opacity, colour and the absence of colours.
- Within these dense geometries, he achieved virtuosic manipulations of optically mixed color, conjuring intriguing tensions between effects of transparency and opacity, flatness and volume.
- The skin of his buildings employs a full palette of optical effects - transparency, translucency, opacity and reflectivity - in a way that seems subtly integrated with the city's structure.
- The cult of transparency leads ultimately to opacity.
Synonyms
opaqueness, non-transparency, lack of transparency
1. 1.1 Obscurity of meaning.
  〈喻〉晦涩；难解
  the difficulty and opacity in Barthes' texts
  巴尔瑟斯作品的难度和晦涩。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In Reznikoff, transparency - in the mode of reportage - snowballs into opacity.
  Despite its opacity, certain qualities of the proposed constitution shine through.
  Its crucial feature is a quality of opacity that forces us to think; it must ‘tease us out of thought’ (Keats).
  An Archaeology of Socialism, despite its difficult language and occasional conceptual opacity, deserves to be read.
  To Hamann, it was obvious that the Age of Reason - which, to his mind, was an age of deepest darkness - required a prose of almost insoluble opacity.
  One indirect effect of this information opacity: spotting price anomalies is difficult at best.
  Isn't our sense of the opacity of translation also the sense of the rebuffing wind in Celan's poem?
  This is no easy feat, given the difficulty and opacity of Howe's poetry, and Back begins her introduction by addressing this very issue.
  Synonyms
  lack of clarity, obscurity, abstruseness, unclearness, density, impenetrability, enigma, unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, reconditeness

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French opacité, from Latin opacitas, from opacus ‘darkened’.

单词	opacity
释义	Definition of opacity in English: opacity noun ə(ʊ)ˈpasɪtioʊˈpæsədi mass noun 1The quality of lacking transparency or translucence. 不透明；半透明 thinner paints need black added to increase opacity 稀一点的颜料需要加点黑色来减少透明度。 Example sentencesExamples There is a continuous interplay between transparency and white opacity, view and closure, partly because the presence of neighbours on both sides who seem too close to the client. Multiple layers of nets stretched over the structural frame create a dramatic and ever-changing play of opacity and translucency as the viewer moves in and around the installation. Although the marks she makes with her brush or palette knife are rectangular in shape, their silhouettes are broken and their surfaces easily slip from opacity into transparency. These stripes often alternate between dense opacity and a milky translucence that barely hides the underlying layers. The skin of his buildings employs a full palette of optical effects - transparency, translucency, opacity and reflectivity - in a way that seems subtly integrated with the city's structure. The Helena's envelope of floor-to-ceiling glass, wrap-around windows, and metal panels weaves a shimmering pattern of opacity and reflection. Speakers at the seminar said increase in lens opacity might lead to blurred vision, sensitivity to light or glare, nearsightedness and distorted images. The Phone Tools content rendering makes use of advanced graphics techniques for image opacity, transparency, zooming and panning. The photoinduced side effects of all these drugs were, in particular, changes in the skin pigmentation, corneal opacity, cataract formation and retinopathy. The main body of the object absorbs light, but the cuts reflect it, and an interplay can be set up between opacity and transparency. The treatment of the walls varies - in the scale of the zigzags, in colour and in opacity - in order to register the different scales and features of the adjacent landscape. It acts as an intermediate space between the natural world and the artificial, and its effects of light and shadow, transparency, translucency and even opacity alter constantly with weather, time and season. Within these dense geometries, he achieved virtuosic manipulations of optically mixed color, conjuring intriguing tensions between effects of transparency and opacity, flatness and volume. The dark glass wall, on the entrance facade, shifts between transparency and a dark, reflective opacity, depending on lighting conditions and the spectator's point of view. Shifting planes of various materials and degrees of opacity create spaces that expand and contract as needed. The cult of transparency leads ultimately to opacity. It explains at once causticity and non-causticity, transparency and opacity, colour and the absence of colours. Galia Amsel, working with translucence and opacity, pushes grey and white glass to its densest, tapering her squared slabs towards narrow, light edges. The commingling of transparency and opacity is handled with remarkable skill. Applying acrylics to the acetate with bamboo brushes, Stone controls viscosity and opacity while leaving the edges of the transparent film unpainted. Synonyms opaqueness, non-transparency, lack of transparency cloudiness, filminess, haziness, mistiness, blur, blurredness, dirtiness, dinginess, muddiness, griminess, smeariness 1.1 The quality of being obscure in meaning. the difficulty and opacity in Barthes' texts 巴尔瑟斯作品的难度和晦涩。 Example sentencesExamples Its crucial feature is a quality of opacity that forces us to think; it must ‘tease us out of thought’ (Keats). An Archaeology of Socialism, despite its difficult language and occasional conceptual opacity, deserves to be read. One indirect effect of this information opacity: spotting price anomalies is difficult at best. In Reznikoff, transparency - in the mode of reportage - snowballs into opacity. This is no easy feat, given the difficulty and opacity of Howe's poetry, and Back begins her introduction by addressing this very issue. To Hamann, it was obvious that the Age of Reason - which, to his mind, was an age of deepest darkness - required a prose of almost insoluble opacity. Despite its opacity, certain qualities of the proposed constitution shine through. Isn't our sense of the opacity of translation also the sense of the rebuffing wind in Celan's poem? Synonyms lack of clarity, obscurity, abstruseness, unclearness, density, impenetrability, enigma, unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, reconditeness Origin Mid 16th century: from French opacité, from Latin opacitas, from opacus 'darkened'. Rhymes audacity, capacity, fugacity, loquacity, mendacity, perspicacity, pertinacity, pugnacity, rapacity, sagacity, sequacity, tenacity, veracity, vivacity, voracity Definition of opacity in US English: opacity nounōˈpasədēoʊˈpæsədi 1The condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness. 不透明；半透明 thinner paints need black added to increase opacity 稀一点的颜料需要加点黑色来减少透明度。 Example sentencesExamples There is a continuous interplay between transparency and white opacity, view and closure, partly because the presence of neighbours on both sides who seem too close to the client. The commingling of transparency and opacity is handled with remarkable skill. The main body of the object absorbs light, but the cuts reflect it, and an interplay can be set up between opacity and transparency. The Helena's envelope of floor-to-ceiling glass, wrap-around windows, and metal panels weaves a shimmering pattern of opacity and reflection. Although the marks she makes with her brush or palette knife are rectangular in shape, their silhouettes are broken and their surfaces easily slip from opacity into transparency. Speakers at the seminar said increase in lens opacity might lead to blurred vision, sensitivity to light or glare, nearsightedness and distorted images. Shifting planes of various materials and degrees of opacity create spaces that expand and contract as needed. The photoinduced side effects of all these drugs were, in particular, changes in the skin pigmentation, corneal opacity, cataract formation and retinopathy. It acts as an intermediate space between the natural world and the artificial, and its effects of light and shadow, transparency, translucency and even opacity alter constantly with weather, time and season. Galia Amsel, working with translucence and opacity, pushes grey and white glass to its densest, tapering her squared slabs towards narrow, light edges. These stripes often alternate between dense opacity and a milky translucence that barely hides the underlying layers. Applying acrylics to the acetate with bamboo brushes, Stone controls viscosity and opacity while leaving the edges of the transparent film unpainted. Multiple layers of nets stretched over the structural frame create a dramatic and ever-changing play of opacity and translucency as the viewer moves in and around the installation. The dark glass wall, on the entrance facade, shifts between transparency and a dark, reflective opacity, depending on lighting conditions and the spectator's point of view. The Phone Tools content rendering makes use of advanced graphics techniques for image opacity, transparency, zooming and panning. The treatment of the walls varies - in the scale of the zigzags, in colour and in opacity - in order to register the different scales and features of the adjacent landscape. It explains at once causticity and non-causticity, transparency and opacity, colour and the absence of colours. Within these dense geometries, he achieved virtuosic manipulations of optically mixed color, conjuring intriguing tensions between effects of transparency and opacity, flatness and volume. The skin of his buildings employs a full palette of optical effects - transparency, translucency, opacity and reflectivity - in a way that seems subtly integrated with the city's structure. The cult of transparency leads ultimately to opacity. Synonyms opaqueness, non-transparency, lack of transparency 1.1 Obscurity of meaning. 〈喻〉晦涩；难解 the difficulty and opacity in Barthes' texts 巴尔瑟斯作品的难度和晦涩。 Example sentencesExamples In Reznikoff, transparency - in the mode of reportage - snowballs into opacity. Despite its opacity, certain qualities of the proposed constitution shine through. Its crucial feature is a quality of opacity that forces us to think; it must ‘tease us out of thought’ (Keats). An Archaeology of Socialism, despite its difficult language and occasional conceptual opacity, deserves to be read. To Hamann, it was obvious that the Age of Reason - which, to his mind, was an age of deepest darkness - required a prose of almost insoluble opacity. One indirect effect of this information opacity: spotting price anomalies is difficult at best. Isn't our sense of the opacity of translation also the sense of the rebuffing wind in Celan's poem? This is no easy feat, given the difficulty and opacity of Howe's poetry, and Back begins her introduction by addressing this very issue. Synonyms lack of clarity, obscurity, abstruseness, unclearness, density, impenetrability, enigma, unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, reconditeness Origin Mid 16th century: from French opacité, from Latin opacitas, from opacus ‘darkened’.
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