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adjective
- 1. not able to be seen through; opaque: "a work rendered in non-transparent acrylic"
- 2. (of an organization or its activities) not open to public scrutiny: "the grant allocation process remains non-transparent and unclear"
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Aug 23, 2015 · The only reason I can imagine for using the word "nontransparent" is that you want to describe a group of objects, some of which are translucent, others opaque, but THAT distinction (translucent or opaque) isn't important to your purpose; in other words, out of three possible properties of an object, in your context it's only important that it's either one (transparent) or one-of-the-other-two ...
Jul 17, 2012 · The semitransparent glass I am thinking of is such that if a person presses the front of his face on one side, the color and shape of the face can be seen from the other side but not the facial fea...
Jan 30, 2015 · Referring to an opaque object as "non-transparent" is like referring to forks as "non-spoons"; not inaccurate, but also not useful. – bcrist Commented Jan 30, 2015 at 2:55
Jun 21, 2015 · EDIT (from OP's comments): You would like something that describes the whole range of transparency/opacity from completely transparent to completely non-transparent (completely opaque), but you don't want it to be a measure. I'm afraid that this is not possible - because you are looking for a term to describe one of the two extremes or anything in between. Something that can be scaled, graded ...
Dec 15, 2014 · The American Heritage Dictionary Fourth Edition includes “semitransparent”. “semi-”, in this case, is being used a prefix rather than a word.
Oct 16, 2014 · In cosmetics there are 2 distinct kinds of skin lotions and some languages (but not English, as far as I know) include distinct words to name them: 1. transparent, water-like looking lotions usually containing solvents and antiseptics and meant for skin cleansing ("pleťová voda" (literally "skin water") in Czech, "лосьон" (literally "lotion") in Russian) 2. opaque (non-transparent ...
