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Перевод: opacity

[существительное]
непрозрачность ; затененность ; темнота ; неясность ; смутное представление; помутнение
[существительное]

Тезаурус:

1. The product is a convenient reference standard for demulsifier manufacturers and users as it overcomes the drawbacks of variability, opacity and flammability encountered with crude oil.
2. (b) Upwards opacity
3. When discussing Dennett and Sloman below, I shall argue that the opacity of one level of programming language to another is a better preliminary model of consciousness than the inaccessibility of the contents of one module from another.
4. Lovins's adversaries were both numerous and powerful; and they drew some consolation from his tendency to write prose of baroque opacity, sometimes more than 50 per cent footnotes, and accessible only to the dogged.
5. It was a measure of the opacity of military affairs that, although no Zuwayi had any evidence of meetings, or of any disproportional conscription, most people thought it plausible that men might be pressed into the army because they were Zuwaya.
6. Some further windows were added, puncturing the weatherboarded exterior and tending to reduce the opacity of the walls which is so characteristic of simple and strong early industrial buildings.
7. However the significance of the air was not simply its varying degrees of opacity; the colour produced by the light on the water particles was vital.
8. The thinner paints need white or black added to increase opacity.
9. In her book Beautiful Theories , the late Elizabeth Bruss made a revealing examination of the way in which Barthes's different translators carried out their task; she shows that whereas Heath did not disguise the difficulty and opacity in Barthes's texts, his American translators turned them into smooth narratives.
10. The claim in this section that what I have called downwards opacity is a necessary feature of consciousness may seem open to the following reply: a person might claim that he was conscious, directly and permanently, of all aspects and details of his bodily functions: nerves, cells, blood vessels, etc., and medical evidence might confirm what he said.
11. These are his charm, his instrumental attitude towards his own goodness, and his fundamental opacity of mind - all characteristics which he shared with Gandhi to some degree.
12. Different kinds of opacity within a program were discussed earlier and these would seem to have quite different correlates in the sphere of consciousness: the lower level of language is almost totally inaccessible from the higher level (unless special structural features are added to the language to make it accessible), in rather the way that the machine code of our brain, if there is one, is utterly inaccessible to me, thinking in English.
13. I would suggest that the two sorts of opacity in a computer that have been discussed here are at least potentially interesting explications of that fact: modularity and program-level reduction.