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opaque
Adjective
  • Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
  • Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
  • Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of figuratively
  • Obtuse, stupid. figuratively
  • Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators. computing
Noun
  • An area of darkness; a place or region with no light. obsolete, poetic
  • Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
Verb
  • To make, render (more) opaque. transitive