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An opaque object is neither transparent (allowing all light to pass through) nor translucent (allowing some light to pass through). When light strikes an interface between two substances, in general, some may be reflected, some absorbed, some scattered, and the rest transmitted (also see refraction ).
In other words, a translucent material is made up of components with different indices of refraction. A transparent material is made up of components with a uniform index of refraction. [1] Transparent materials appear clear, with the overall appearance of one color, or any combination leading up to a brilliant spectrum of every color.
The opacity of a microbial colony can be described as transparent, translucent, or opaque. Staphylococci are usually opaque, [1]: 167–8 while many Streptococcus species are translucent. [4]: 188 The overall shape of the colony may be characterized as circular, irregular, or punctiform (like pinpoints). The vertical growth or elevation of the ...
Radiodensity (or radiopacity) is opacity to the radio wave and X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum: that is, the relative inability of those kinds of electromagnetic radiation to pass through a particular material.
Transparency in PDF was designed not to cause errors in PDF viewers that did not understand it – they would simply display all elements as fully opaque. However, this was a two-edged sword as users with older viewers, PDF printers, etc. could see or print something completely different from the original design.
An object like a mirror can be totally opaque, where no light gets through the metal coating, or, if the coating is thin enough, some light may get through and the rest reflects, making it partially opaque. The image still gets through, so it is also partially transparent, although different objects may be partially translucent and partially ...
The term is used in philosophical theories of reference, and is to be contrasted with referentially transparent context.In rough outline: Opacity: "Mary believes that Cicero is a great orator" gives rise to an opaque context; although Cicero was also called 'Tully', [2] we can't simply substitute 'Tully' for 'Cicero' in this context ("Mary believes that Tully is a great orator") and guarantee ...
In computer science, an opaque data type is a data type whose concrete data structure is not defined in an interface. This enforces information hiding , since its values can only be manipulated by calling subroutines that have access to the missing information.