semi-transparencyn.
The quality or condition of being semi-transparent; partial transparency.
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semi-diaphaneity1663
semi-opacity1688
semi-transparency1787
1787 J. Wedgwood Let. 16 June in Sel. Lett. (1965) 308 The original artist availed himself of the semitransparency of the white glass.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 434/1 This ore is so called from its colour and semitransparency, by which it resembles horn or colophony.
1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 161 The obscure semi-transparency of the texture of the animal.
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