Opaque definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary OPAQUE. [See Opake.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: not ... transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays" [ant: clear] 2: not clearly understood or expressed [syn: opaque, unintelligible] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Latin opacus Date: 1641 ... and especially light 2. a. hard to understand or explain < opaque prose > b. obtuse, thickheaded • opaque noun • opaquely adverb • opaqueness ...
opaque projector definitions Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1951 a projector using reflected light for projecting an image of an opaque object or matter on an opaque support (as a photograph)
... of meaning [syn: opacity, opaqueness] 3: the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the ... matter to obstruct the transmission of radiant energy 3. an opaque spot in a normally transparent structure (as the lens of ... eye) Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 the state of being opaque. 2 obscurity of meaning. 3 obtuseness of understanding. Etymology: F opacité f. L opacitas -tatis (as OPAQUE) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Opacity O*pac"i*ty, n ... opacitas: cf.F. opacit['e].] 1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to ... murkiness, mystification, ninnyism, oafdom, oafishness, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, obscurity, obtuseness, opaque, opaqueness, perplexity, reconditeness, roil, roiledness, shapelessness, simpletonianism, slowness, sluggishness, ...
... tooth [syn: enamel, tooth enamel] 2: a colored glassy compound (opaque or partially opaque) that is fused to the surface of metal or glass ... enamelist noun II. noun Date: 15th century 1. a usually opaque vitreous composition applied by fusion to the surface of metal ... appearance Oxford Reference Dictionary n. & v. --n. 1 a glasslike opaque or semi-transparent coating on metallic or other hard surfaces ... inlaying or application in varied colors. 2. (Min.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe. 3. That which is enameled ...
gouache definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an opaque watercolor prepared with gum 2: a watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: French ... at island Date: 1882 1. a method of painting with opaque watercolors 2. a. a picture painted by gouache b. the ... Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 a method of painting in opaque pigments ground in water and thickened with a gluelike substance ... Gouache, n. [F., It. guazzo.] A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with ...
... forms of radiation; "barium sulfate is radiopaque" [syn: radiopaque, radio-opaque] [ant: radiolucent] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: circa 1923 being opaque to various forms of radiation (as X-rays) Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. (also radio-opaque) opaque to X-rays or similar radiation. Derivatives: radiopacity n. Etymology: RADIO- + OPAQUE
... o]ntgen rays are noted for their penetration of many opaque substances, as wood and flesh, their action on photographic plates ... transverse pulses in the ether. They are used in examining opaque objects, as for locating fractures or bullets in the human ... electrical discharge. It is capable of passing through many bodies opaque to light, and producing photographic and fluorescent effects by which means pictures showing the internal structure of opaque objects are made, called radiographs, or sciagraphs
... agate jasper. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark ... Hebrew y?sh?pheh jasper Date: 14th century 1. an opaque cryptocrystalline quartz of any of several colors; especially green chalcedony ... a blackish green • jaspery adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary n. an opaque variety of quartz, usu. red, yellow, or brown in colour ... yasb, yasf, Heb. y[=a]shpheh. Cf. Diaper.] (Min.) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull ...
opacify definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: make opaque; "The glass was opacified more greater privacy" 2: become opaque; "the tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and ... Reference Dictionary v.tr. & intr. (-ies, -ied) make or become opaque. Derivatives: opacifier n.
... an optical projector that gives images of both transparent and opaque objects Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1903 1. a projector for images of both opaque objects and transparencies 2. episcope Oxford Reference Dictionary n. an optical projector capable of giving images of both opaque and transparent objects. Etymology: EPI- + DIA- + -SCOPE
... 2005) n 1: (radiology) examination of the inner structure of opaque objects using X rays or other penetrating radiation [syn: radioscopy ... Dictionary n. the examination by X-rays etc. of objects opaque to light. Derivatives: radioscopic adj. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Radioscopy ... os"co*py, n. [Radio- + -scopy.] Direct observation of objects opaque to light by means of some other form of radiant ...
... Maiolica, Maiorica Majorca Date: 1851 1. earthenware covered with an opaque tin glaze and decorated on the glaze before firing; especially ... c. trade name for earthenware with coloured decoration on an opaque white glaze. 2 = MAIOLICA. Etymology: alt. f. MAIOLICA Webster's ... jol"i*ca, n. [It.] A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy ...