obscuration
nounEtymology
From Latin obscūrātiō. By surface analysis, obscure + -ation.
- borrowed from obscūrātiō
Definitions
The state of being obscured.
- Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind!
- At eleven the room darkened, the moon having climbed behind a tree. But the tree being small, and the moon's ascension rapid, this transit was brief, and this obscuration.
A unit of measurement used in particular for smoke detectors which respond to absorption…
A unit of measurement used in particular for smoke detectors which respond to absorption of light by smoke, in percent absorption per unit length, e.g. % obs/ft, % obs/m.
The neighborhood
- neighborobscurantism
- neighborobscurity
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for obscuration. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA