TURBIDITY Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

turbidity

noun

as in cloudiness

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Recent Examples of turbidity That’s because dishwashers are equipped with something called a turbidity sensor that basically senses the murkiness of the water and adjusts the wash cycle accordingly. — Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026 To create a complete system, the buoy is equipped with sensors for temperature, turbidity, chlorophyll, and oxygen levels. — New Atlas, 30 June 2026 The South Florida Sun Sentinel reached out to the county for comment about the plume size, turbidity and distance travel. — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026 The study suggests that persistent turbidity plumes created by coastal modification projects may interfere with shark prey capture and could increase the likelihood of unintended human interactions. — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 Cordell from Yuba Water Agency said initial field checks near the incident showed high turbidity, or cloudy water, and that other water quality samples have been sent to a lab for analysis. — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 18 Feb. 2026 Years later, those breaks were used to confirm the existence of underwater landslides known as turbidity currents. — PC Magazine, 3 Dec. 2025

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Noun

The outside consultants explained that the most common reason for white, cloudy water is dissolved air, which is harmless and can be tested by filling a glass and waiting a couple of minutes to see if the cloudiness dissipates.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 5 Aug. 2026
Changes in color, cloudiness, or unusual appearance can be signs the medication may not be stable anymore.

— Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

Definition of cloudiness

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As more financing moves into customized private structures, investors and regulators will need to watch for opacity, concentration, and the temptation to confuse financial engineering with genuine economic productivity.

— Jim Zelter, Fortune, 31 July 2026
But such opacity does not erase the commercial logic of releasing the weights.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 23 July 2026

Definition of opacity

Noun

Scientific consensus is that this opaqueness is caused by hazy banks of clouds that are masking the atmospheres, but what kind of aerosol particles are in the clouds?

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 June 2026
International humanitarian law mandates the principles of distinction, proportionality, and necessity, but the opaqueness of drone operations, particularly outside active battlefields, challenges these principles.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026

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