0 (of a liquid) the quality or state of being cloudy because a lot of small pieces of matter are held in it:
Human activities increase pollution and turbidity in the lakes.
The turbidity of the lake water is a factor in summer tourism.
The increase in the amount of erosion and turbidity is going to be incredible.
Such flows occur commonly in nature, examples being katabatic winds and turbidity currents in the oceans.
In addition, experiments were monitored as a function of phage progeny release rather than turbidity decline.
A similar concept has guided research on turbidity cur rents and is widely and very effectively used in sedimentology.
Lysis profiles typically display significant variation between repetitions in terms of absolute turbidities attained and in terms of overall experimental durations.
Papers deal with a range of natural systems, including siliciclastic turbidity cur rents and debris flows, pyroclastic density cur rents and avalanches.
