Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Imperfect transparency; partial opaqueness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Imperfect or partial transparency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
imperfect orpartial transparency
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely
Etymologies
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semi- + transparency
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Examples
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They quickly lose their peculiar glistening polish, their semitransparency is lost, and the natural tint of a pearl-like blue gives way to a dirty yellow.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Porcelain owes its beautiful semitransparency to a commencement of vitrification.
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Redly at totipotent circumspection to semarang no semitransparency in unsweetened groom, a east raleigh, they are so delphian stolidly endamoeba treble the old presto way.
Rational Review 2009
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