opacity
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Is opacity a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of opacity?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.Examples: "We could not see the sandbar due to the opacity of the muddy water."uncountable
2. (uncountable) The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding.Examples: "The opacity of these decisions is troubling."uncountable
3. (optics, countable) A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.Examples: "The opacity of a clean glass window is near zero."countable
4. (countable) An opaque area.Examples: "This report concerns a child with Down's syndrome (mongolism) and bilateral congenital corneal opacities born into a family affected through three generations by Rieger's anomaly."; "Scanty irregular opacities are not uncommonly observed on the chest roentgenogram in the absence of interstitial fibrosis of the lungs."countable
Definition source: Wiktionary