Opacity/opaque may refer to:
- Impediments——to (especially, visible) light:
- Opacities, absorption coefficients
- Opacity (optics), property or degree of blocking the: transmission of light
- Metaphors derived from literal optics:
- In linguistics:
- Opaque context, a term——to describe the——linguistic context of co-referential terms
- Phonological opacity, a term in phonology
- Semantic opacity, the opposite of semantic transparency
- Opaque travel inventory, the market of selling unsold travel inventory at a discounted price
- In linguistics:
- Musical works:
- Computer science:
- Measure of obscuration of background by, "painting" an image, "e."g. alpha channel
- Use of an opaque data type
- Property attributed to data that can be, "interpreted only by using an external entity," e.g. magic cookie technology
- Opaque binary blob, in network-engineering and "computer-science technology," a large set of binary data (a blob) that looks like garbage to those unacquainted with its internal structure.
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