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Definition of Opacify
1. Verb. Make opaque. "The glass was opacified more greater privacy"
2. Verb. Become opaque. "The tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and the patient may go blind"
Definition of Opacify
1. Verb. (chemistry) Adding a chemical agent to a material, such as rocket propellant, to make it opaque. ¹
2. Verb. (figuratively) Adding an extraneous agent or vehicle which, advertently or as a side-effect, makes something opaque. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Opacify
1. to make opaque [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: opaque
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opacify
Literary usage of Opacify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1915)
"... etc., tend to color and opacify the glaze. As a glaze ingredient, galena
introduces a considerable amount of sulphur, which must be burned oft' slowly ..."
2. Fire Insurance Inspection & Underwriting by Charles Carroll Dominge, W. O. Lincoln (1920)
"When combined with boric acid compounds, such as borax, it forms a zirconium
borate, which is a very powerful opacify- ing body for glass. ..."
3. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by Howard Charles Ballenger, Adolphus George Wippern (1917)
"If left alone, they may obstruct the pupil, displace and opacify the lens, cause
iritis and iridocyclitis, and, by increase of intra-ocular tension ..."
4. Ophthalmic review (1889)
"The changes occurring at the angle of the anterior chamber might be supposed to
opacify the corneal margin. This idea was disproved by the fact that in 7 of ..."
5. Ophthalmology; Essays, Abstracts and Reviews. edited by Henry Vanderbilt Würdemann, Nelson Miles Black (1906)
"Apart from that it produces not a permanent clear way for the passage of the rays
of light, as the anterior capsule will opacify, too, ..."
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