Semitransparency

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Imperfect transparency; partial opaqueness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Imperfect or partial transparency.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. imperfect or partial transparency
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely
  • Word Usage
    "They quickly lose their peculiar glistening polish, their semitransparency is lost, and the natural tint of a pearl-like blue gives way to a dirty yellow."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract