Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being translucent.
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- noun the quality of being
translucent
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- noun the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely
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Examples
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And "translucency" expresses so well the lighting in my "spiritual environment" at the moment.
Translucency Happy 2008
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And "translucency" expresses so well the lighting in my "spiritual environment" at the moment.
Archive 2008-03-01 Happy 2008
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The GLZ family offers a selection of 34, 24, or 12 megabytes of VRAM. 24 megabytes of VRAM supports resolutions up to 1,600 x 1,280 with 16.8 million colors (true color). 12 megabytes of VRAM suppots true color at a maximum resolution of 1,152 x 854. 34 megabytes of VRAM supports a 32-bit Z buffer, double-buffered true color, and display capabilities such as translucency and overlay at resolutions up to 1,600 x 1,280.
FAQ: The PC 3D Graphics Accelerators FAQ v0.6 (Part II) 1995
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From what I've seen I'd say that enterprises have achieved the opposite kind of translucency with their identity management programs.
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This isn't the transparency I expected, it's more like translucency.
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I saw some beautiful encaustic paintings in a gallery, and the translucency and depth of the medium was very attractive.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #3: The trouble with beeswax 2009
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First-trimester trisomy screening: nuchal translucency measurement training and quality assurance to correct and unify technique.
Prenatal Diagnosis 2010
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Writers writing with different purposes, two different, separate men, but both with gifts from God that lend to their writing the translucency of all great works, a translucency through which shines the only real glory saturating sight.
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I teased him by asking if he, personally, despite his hard duties as CEO, had approved tiny details like the translucency of the glass and the color of the wood.
Mossberg: The Steve Jobs I Knew Walter S. Mossberg 2011
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J.M.W. Turner's "The Blue Rigi, Sunrise," painted in 1842, looks across Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, where the mountain becomes a conduit for reflecting light and color, showing watercolor's prized purity and translucency.
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