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Definition of Translucency

1. Noun. The quality of allowing light to pass diffusely.

Definition of Translucency

1. Noun. the quality of being translucent ¹

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Definition of Translucency

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Translucency

Literary usage of Translucency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Photography in Colours: A Text-book for Amateurs and Students of Physics by George Lindsay Johnson (1915)
"Transparency and translucency. — A body is said to be transparent when light passes freely through it with a minimum of absorption or reflection. ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"translucency of a film of silver shown by him, X. 438, 1 o. His experiments showing the earth's rotary motion, VI. 358, 2 c. ..."

3. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1854)
"Cause of translucency.—13. Hard and tender porcelain distinguished.—14. English tender porcelain.—15. Mode of preparing the clay.—16. Statuary porcelain. ..."

4. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The translucency which polishing gives metallic surfaces is not only in general harmony with the familiar observation that the devitrification, that is, ..."

5. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1906)
"I think it is possible to have an increase in translucency subsequent to ... I would say, that the difference between vitrification with translucency and a ..."

6. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1902)
"Specimen BI-3 shows a fair degree of translucency and a tendency to stoniness. Specimen BI-4 is a stony appearing porcelain with only traces of translucency ..."

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