English-French translations for opacity

• opacité
  Là aussi, l'opacité ne peut être la règle! Opacity cannot be the rule there either.
  Je pense, bien au contraire, que le maître mot est opacité et, très souvent, opacité intentionnelle. Far from it; I think opacity, very often intentional, is the right word to use for it.
  La deuxième raison importante à l'évasion fiscale, c'est l'opacité et la complexité des systèmes fiscaux. The second important reason for tax evasion is the opacity and complexity of tax systems.

Definition of opacity

• The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through
• The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding
• A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light

Examples

• We could not see the sandbar due to the opacity of the muddy water.
• The opacity of these decisions is troubling.
• The opacity of a clean glass window is near zero.

Related words

• opacification
• scolopacids
• opacimeter
• Scolopacidae