obscuration

noun

Etymology

From Latin obscūrātiō. By surface analysis, obscure + -ation.

  1. borrowed from obscūrātiō

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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

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