Opacity
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Opacity or opaque refers to something difficult to see through or perceive. It can refer to:
- Opacity (coal combustion), the ratio of coal to air in coal combustion literature.
- Opacity (optics), the degree to which light is blocked.
- Opaque context, a linguistic context in which it is not possible to substitute co-referential terms while guaranteeing the preservation of truth values.
- Opaque travel inventory, the market of selling unsold travel inventory at a discounted price.
- In computer science:
- How much an image will obscure the background when painted, usually defined by its alpha channel.
- The use of an opaque data type, a data type that is incompletely described in a module interface.
- Said of data that can only be interpreted and by an external entity, such as a magic cookie.
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