0 the act of preventing something from being seen or heard, or something that prevents something else from being seen or heard:
Some smoke detectors operate on the principle of light obscuration.
The planet is less vividly banded than Jupiter, possibly due to greater obscuration by ammonia clouds.
There must be no deliberate obscuration of information.
The regurgitated contrast medium in the right ventricle is also partly responsiblefor the obscuration.
As obscuration is the main problem in computer rendering, this leads to a fast algorithm.
This obscuration by the superimposed ascending aorta resulted, however, in significant diagnostic difficulty in only three patients.
Furthermore, they are extremely clearly and hierarchically ordered, and declaim the text in an almost completely simultaneous fashion in the upper voices, thus avoiding any obscuration of the text.
It may be that, with all its disadvantages, it is essential that there should be this obscuration.
