Occluded in a sentence

Darkness barreled in, and, for a terrible minute, the moon entirely occluded the light of the sun — except for its dancing orange corona, the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is usually hidden by its powerful light.

But what do Asian kids at Stuyvesant know about America’s occluded system of racial preferences?

The basic gist: there’s a cat occluded from observation inside a box with a radioactive atom.

I waited in a favorite place, an occluded lakeside gazebo with a view of the boathouse, watching his dot make its way down an unlit, twisting path.

This may be because patients admitted at weekends may have to wait longer for reperfusion therapy to open occluded arteries and restore blood flow, the researchers said.

A condition is said to be occluded in a given time point if an action has been just executed that makes the condition true or false as an effect.

Definition Nearly all nasal consonants are nasal occlusives, in which air escapes through the nose but not through the mouth, as it is blocked (occluded) by the lips or tongue.

Historically, it has been believed that the arc of Riolan, or the meandering mesenteric artery (of Moskowitz), is a variable vessel connecting the proximal SMA to the proximal IMA that can be extremely important if either vessel is occluded.

It forces the system to render each point on every polygon in the visible set, even if that polygon is occluded in the finished scene.

Long vowels are often shortened before pre-occluded sounds.

Note the occluded, cold and warm frontal boundaries The following types of cyclones are identifiable in synoptic charts.

Occasionally, the old (occluded) mesocyclone and the new mesocyclone produce a tornado at the same time.

Occluded fronts form late in the cyclone life cycle near the center of the cyclone and often wrap around the storm center.

Spatial data structures More advanced techniques use data structures to cull out objects which are either outside the viewing volume or are occluded by other objects.

The line is tapered according to camera angle and gets occluded by players and other objects as if the line were painted on the field.

These deposit onto the arterial walls which are already partially occluded and build upon the blockage.

Vessel occlusion tends to be a positive feedback system; an occluded vessel creates eddies in the normally laminar flow or plug flow blood currents.