0 preventing light from travelling through, and therefore not transparent or translucent: --
1 (of a substance) preventing light from traveling through, and therefore not allowing you to see through it: --
2 difficult to understand or know about, especially because things have been intentionally kept secret or made complicated: --
Accounting firms have been notoriously opaque about their finances in the past.
Governments have been able to maintain opaque and discriminatory procurement practices.
The interaction between vowel epenthesis and velar deletion is opaque, of the type that would be characterised as counterbleeding in theories with rule ordering.
Yawelmani, then, challenges this prediction of sympathy theory : processes that produce identical faithfulness violations should act together in rendering a third process opaque.
In contrast, legitimate sympathetic candidates are at most singly opaque.
Neighbouring aquaria were separated by grey opaque partitions to prevent visual interactions.
However, the often opaque data flow in imperative environments prevents large-scale code restructuring as we do.
Despite (or, perhaps, because of) the informal language used to state the feature theory, it is both opaque and unconstrained.
However, the reduplicated form in (7d) shows an opaque underapplication of /a/-raising.
As the electrons propagate inside the target, they ionize the material, which becomes opaque to the probe.
