turbidness

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  1. turbidity
  2. opacity
  3. cloudiness
  4. opaqueness
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of turbidity
Noun
  • That kind of opacity would be a problem for almost any other organization with a similar mandate.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
  • These sentences are part of a four-plus-page descriptive riff, one of many passages that lend the novel a teeming, avid opacity.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
Definition of opacity
Noun
  • Once opened, check for foul odors, cloudiness, or spurting liquid when opening.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 13 July 2026
  • Oven cleaners are not safe for glass doors and can cause permanent damage like cloudiness or chemical etching.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 4 July 2026
Definition of cloudiness
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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