Usually means: Reduction or blockage of visibility.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word obscuration:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. obscuration: Merriam-Webster
  2. obscuration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Obscuration, obscuration: Wordnik
  4. obscuration: Wiktionary
  5. obscuration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. obscuration: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Obscuration, obscuration: Dictionary.com
  8. Obscuration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. obscuration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Obscuration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. obscuration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. obscuration: FreeDictionary.org
  13. obscuration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. obscuration: Collins English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obscuration: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obscuration: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obscuration)

noun:  The state of being obscured.
noun:  A unit of measurement used in particular for smoke detectors which respond to absorption of light by smoke, in percent absorption per unit length, e.g. % obs/ft, % obs/m.

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