TURBIDNESS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

turbidness

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Noun

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, New Atlas, 30 June 2026

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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
Injuries stink, and so did the opacity with which the Clippers shared news of their star’s health status.

— Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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The second system being tracked by the NHC was a weak area of low pressure with disorganized cloudiness and showers located in the northeastern and north-central Gulf.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2026
Bakos said the overall effect of the mirrors would depend on the reflectiveness of the illuminated surface and the cloudiness of the sky.

— Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of cloudiness

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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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