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:
Governments have been able to maintain opaque and discriminatory procurement practices.
Accounting firms have been notoriously opaque about their finances in the past.
Transparent metaphors exibit clearer conceptual similarities between the target and source domains than opaque metaphors.
Allowing for the language described in (44) is problematic, because there is no nasal harmony pattern in which glides are opaque, but liquids are targets.
Rather, the determinants of opaque interactions are always isolated from one another, except as they interact through the ranking of their associated sympathy constraints.
In many clear cases of long-distance harmony, where the harmonic feature is indisputably [nasal], opaque obstruents are never systematically prenasalised and voiced.
The ridges have compressed enough to be somewhat opaque to backlighter photons.
Although she quotes numbers and percentages from her varied sources and compiles some interesting (if opaque) tables, her account in essentially narrative.
The target is mostly still transparent to the probe light, although it is becoming opaque near the interaction region.
As the electrons propagate inside the target, they ionize the material, which becomes opaque to the probe.
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