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  2. Transparency and translucency - Wikipedia

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    Transparency and translucency. Dichroic filters are created using optically transparent materials. In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale (one in which the dimensions are ...

  3. Opacity - Wikipedia

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    Opacity is the measure of impenetrability to electromagnetic or other kinds of radiation, especially visible light. In radiative transfer, it describes the absorption and scattering of radiation in a medium, such as a plasma, dielectric, shielding material, glass, etc. An opaque object is neither transparent (allowing all light to pass through ...

  4. Colonial morphology - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Cesia (visual appearance) - Wikipedia

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    Five basic cesias: black, matte, specular, translucent, and transparent. Diagram of the order system for cesias. A scale of cesia: from transparent to opaque (variation of permeability), by mixing clear water and milk. A scale of cesias from specular to matte (variation of diffusivity), by progressive tarnished of a mirror.

  6. Transparency (graphic) - Wikipedia

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    Transparency (graphic) GIF animation of an Apollonian sphere packing with transparent background. Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible.

  7. Transparent ceramics - Wikipedia

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    Transparent ceramics. Transparent spinel (MgAl 2 O 4) ceramic is used traditionally for applications such as high-energy laser windows because of its excellent transmission in visible wavelengths and mid-wavelength infrared (0.2–5.0 μm) when combined with selected materials – source: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory [citation needed] Many ...

  8. Transparency (linguistic) - Wikipedia

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    In the field of lexical semantics, semantic transparency (in adjective form: semantically transparent) is a measure of the degree to which the meaning of a multimorphemic combination can be synchronically related to the meaning of its constituents. Semantic transparency is a scalar notion. At the top end of the scale are combinations whose ...

  9. Milk glass - Wikipedia

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    Milk glass. Decorative pedestal milk glass bowl. Milk glass is an opaque or translucent, milk white or colored glass that can be blown or pressed into a wide variety of shapes. First made in Venice in the 16th century, colors include blue, pink, yellow, brown, black, and white.