| 单词 | opacity |
| 释义 | opacity (once / 18821 pages) n Opacity is the characteristic of being difficult to understand or unclear. A professor whose lectures are known for opacity is going to find himself in a room full of some very frustrated students. In its literal sense opacity is used to talk about objects that don't allow light to shine through. A window that has accumulated a lot of dirt and dust is characterized by its opacity, as opposed to a transparent window, which is one you can see right through. The word opacity is used more generally for anything obscure, unclear, or incomprehensible, like the opacity of a novel full of ten-syllable words or a dictionary that doesn't give you any clear or straightforward definitions. WORD FAMILYopacity: opacities+/opaque: opacity, opaquely, opaqueness, opaquer, semiopaque/opaqueness: opaquenesses USAGE EXAMPLESIt became a mainstay at beer keggers, where its size, typically 16 ounces, durability and opacity were prized attributes. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Perhaps the greatest challenge screen actors face is capturing that opacity. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) How’s ‘hard-core expression’? Huppert pushes her entire self to the limit while doing more for opacity than any curtain you’ve ever seen.” New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) 1n the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper opaqueness clarity, clearness, uncloudedness the quality of clear water cloudiness, muddiness, murkiness the quality of being cloudy blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softnessthe quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines turbidity, turbidnessmuddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended haziness, mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousnesscloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor dimness, faintnessthe quality of being dim or lacking contrast vaguenessindistinctness of shape or character quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation Ant|Hypo|Hyper transparence, transparency permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation optical opacity opacity to light radio-opacity, radiopacityopacity to X-rays or other radiation physical phenomenon a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy 3n incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning Syn|Hyper opaqueness incomprehensibility the quality of being incomprehensible |
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