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

Buyers who don’t care about cloudiness are gravitating to the cheaper bullet tier where the Frigidaire, Igloo and Magic Chef models sit.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2026
Check for signs of discoloration or cloudiness in the liquid.

— Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of cloudiness

Noun

There’s an opacity around how the models are tested collectively and what the White House standards are for releasing.

— Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Aside from this feature, iOS 27 also includes a way to adjust the opacity of Liquid Glass, new icon designs, extra-large widgets, and new volume settings for ringtones, alarms, timers, and alerts.

— Emma Roth, The Verge, 9 Sep. 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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