Usually means: Lack of transparency or translucency.
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We found 50 dictionaries that define the word opacity:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. opacity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. opacity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opacity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. opacity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opacity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Opacity, opacity: Wordnik
  7. opacity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. opacity: Wiktionary
  9. opacity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. opacity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. opacity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. opacity: Dictionary.com
  13. opacity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Opacity (album), Opacity (optics), Opacity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Opacity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. opacity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. opacity: Rhymezone
  18. Opacity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. opacity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. opacity: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. opacity: Free Dictionary
  22. opacity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. opacity: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. opacity: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Opacity: Health & Beauty Glossary
  3. Opacity: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  4. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. opacity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opacity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. opacity: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Opacity: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Opacity: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. Opacity: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  4. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  5. Opacity: Glossary of Paper Terms
  6. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  8. Opacity: Beauty & Health Glossary
  9. Paper Making (No longer online)
  10. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See opacities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through
noun:  (uncountable) The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding.
noun:  (optics, countable) A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.

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