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Opaque meaning
Neither reflecting nor emitting light. | Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent. | Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
Synonyms of Opaque
Example sentences (20)
One group identifies the opacities of particular low and middle étage cloud structures and comprises the varieties translucidus (thin translucent), perlucidus (thick opaque with translucent breaks), and opacus (thick opaque).
Peruvian opal (also called blue opal) is a semiopaque to opaque blue-green stone found in Peru, which is often cut to include the matrix in the more opaque stones.
Canal Plastics Center Inc. - The company offers acrylic rods and tubes such as clear colorless, white opaque, and yellow fluorescent.
Considering how all this is interpreted in Scotland, the matter remains opaque, concerning the Gaels as a protected group.
Dumb Money takes a critical look at the opaque and rigged nature of Wall Street, highlighting the lack of transparency in the system.
Even by the opaque standards of Chinese politics, there is little public information about Li’s background or personal life.
For years, many economists’ belief in the so-called of perpetual growth, combined with the sheer scale and opaque nature of the Chinese economy, led to a misplaced confidence in the Chinese political leadership.
He noted that Apple has been more opaque than Google Play, though they still held frequent conversations.
If a photon were to turn into an axion in the strong magnetic field, that axion could pass through the opaque wall at the end of the line of magnets.
If that vast nexus of international contracts and opaque leverage starts to unravel, there are no obvious circuit breakers to stop a dangerous chain reaction.
In China, where the legal system is opaque and the free press is non-existent, social media has become a place where victims can publicize their cases.
Individual churches, which already publicly provide contact information for individuals, would be “treated as though its ownership was somehow opaque,” she said.
It also raises big questions about the state’s reliance on often opaque, out-of-state, for-profit providers to handle patients with serious concerns, including those under government mandate for psychiatric or substance use care, he said.
It’s clear that many people object to an internet where powerful institutions can judge a user’s worthiness based on a handful of opaque factors.
Its deliberations and decisions are opaque.
Marks & Spencer’s foil mini skirt, £99, will look just as good with black opaque tights as it does with bare legs.
Once a heavy drinker, Dr. Murphy was seemingly responsible for the death of a patient, although the circumstances of the unfortunate passing are admittedly opaque.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico announced Tuesday that it will start cracking down on those who abuse the U.S. territory’s tax credit system, an opaque and long unregulated sector with claims that average about $270 million a year.
Simply put, Moscow’s strategic incapability, inconsistency and dominating opaque relations are adversely affecting sustainable developments in Africa.
Smooth, opaque glass floors framed by strips of steel have open edges next to the shelves at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.