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[ adjective ] not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy
Examples "opaque windows of the jail" "opaque to X-rays" Used in print (Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)Piddington and Minnett explained their observations by pointing_out that rocklike materials which are likely to make_up the surface of the moon would be partially transparent to radio_waves , although opaque to infrared_radiation . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Left in their previous atom-like smallness , they would have cut_away too abruptly into depth ; and the broad , opaque shapes of pasted paper would have been isolated in such a way as to make them jump_out of plane . |
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[ adjective ] not clearly understood or expressed
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