Turbidity is an English word with synonyms like cloudiness or murkiness. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Turbidity in a sentence
Turbidity meaning
- The state of being turbid; turbidness.
- The measure of transparency of a fluid (units of measurement include Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU)).
Synonyms of Turbidity
Using Turbidity
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of being turbid; turbidness. | The measure of transparency of a fluid (units of measurement include Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU)).
- Useful related words include: turbidness, cloudiness, murkiness, muddiness.
- In the example corpus, turbidity often appears in combinations such as: turbidity of, the turbidity, of turbidity.
Context around Turbidity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Turbidity
- In this selection, "turbidity" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, water, high, increased, level, brought and levels stand out and add context to how "turbidity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 23 the turbidity of the and be increased turbidity. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "turbidity" sits close to words such as abra, accies and accommodative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with turbidity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Higher turbidity takes longer filtration. (5 words)
The key usage of turbidity equipment is in quality testing. (10 words)
The measurement of turbidity is a key test of water quality. (11 words)
The turbidity of the water sample collected from Bogibeel showed a turbidity of 400, even though the turbidity level of the water sample collected from the other three sites was much lower. (32 words)
Huffman has been advocating for years for the Corps to study raising Coyote Valley Dam to increase Lake Mendocino’s water storage capacity and redesign its outflows to reduce turbidity. (30 words)
Shane Boyd, a researcher with the Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance, was at Second North River on Monday testing the water’s turbidity and it didn’t fair well. (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
The turbidity of the water sample collected from Bogibeel showed a turbidity of 400, even though the turbidity level of the water sample collected from the other three sites was much lower.
As of this morning, May 23, the turbidity of the Christina Lake Water Utility System is below 1.0 NTU for four consecutive days.
Even now, water clarity is erroneously equated to salinity, whereas it is a matter of turbidity.
The Maynilad Water Service Inc. implemented water service interruption in five villages in Parañaque City due to prolonged high water turbidity brought by Amihan.
A water quality advisory for the entire domestic water system was also issued as a precautionary measure as there could be increased turbidity.
High turbidity in water will also clog pipes and customer’s facilities.
Huffman has been advocating for years for the Corps to study raising Coyote Valley Dam to increase Lake Mendocino’s water storage capacity and redesign its outflows to reduce turbidity.
According to the city, those systems use chlorine for disinfection, and higher-than-normal turbidity can affect the chlorination process.
A rendering of the Kokanee Systems device which measures five specific variables in water: PH, temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen and turbidity.
The Nunavut Department of Health issued the advisory in a news release, calling it a "precautionary measure," as a result of high turbidity levels (cloudy water).
General hygienic requirements for materials and products (e.g. for microrobiological growth, taste, smell, colouring and turbidity of water).
However, improvements are seen in turbidity, clarity, ammoniacal nitrogen, total phosphorus, dissolved reactive phosphorus, and E coli.
Shane Boyd, a researcher with the Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance, was at Second North River on Monday testing the water’s turbidity and it didn’t fair well.
Higher turbidity takes longer filtration.
The city says decreased turbidity also means the boil-water notice for the Sunnyside and West Kelowna Estates systems have been downgraded to a water quality advisory.
The key usage of turbidity equipment is in quality testing.
The measurement of turbidity is a key test of water quality.
Aggregate particles that are too fine to be used are rejected by dredging boats, releasing vast dust plumes and changing water turbidity..
Cloudy amber may be clarified in an oil-bath, as the oil fills the numerous pores to which the turbidity is due.
Early uses in industry Egyptians reportedly used the coagulant alum as early as 1500 BC to reduce the visible cloudiness ( turbidity ) in the water.
Common combinations with turbidity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- turbidity of 5×
- the turbidity 4×
- of turbidity 4×
- water turbidity 3×
- turbidity in 3×
- and turbidity 3×
- increased turbidity 2×
- high turbidity 2×
- in turbidity 2×
- turbidity is 2×