Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of obscuring or darkening; the state of being darkened or obscured; the act or state of being made obscure or indistinct: as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
obscured
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Examples
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Solar eclipse, whereas in the case of a lunar eclipse the obscuration is the same in degree at all parts of the Earth where the Moon is visible.
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You'll need to be in a rural location to avoid the obscuration of city lights.
Solar flare 2011: Will the northern lights reach south? Melissa Bell 2011
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The culprit is a national policing structure that has become a convenient model of obscuration and unaccountability
Policing and surveillance: The inspector calls | Editorial 2011
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Editorial: The culprit is a national policing structure that has become a convenient model of obscuration and unaccountability
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These are frequently attended by obscuration of vision or temporary blindness.
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But that is not a reason to blame one rogue officer when the culprit is a national policing structure that has become a convenient model of obscuration and unaccountability.
Policing and surveillance: The inspector calls | Editorial 2011
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If this should occur you'll need to be in a rural location to avoid the obscuration of city lights.
Solar Flare 2011: Aurora alert Steve Tracton 2011
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Editorial: The culprit is a national policing structure that has become a convenient model of obscuration and unaccountability
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Had the acetate been used, the imposition of the poems directly over the images of the subjects 'faces would have integrated word and image but would have resulted in considerable obscuration of both the text and the faces.
Gerard Malanga's Journey From Andy Warhol's Stage Dancer To Factory Poet 2010
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Whereas once the texture of paint, the curve of line, the density of color was the meaning I gave to my life, I now see it all as an interruption of blank space, a contrivance of personality, an obscuration of peace.
4 o' clock 2010
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