Opacity

Opacity or opaque can refer to:

Optical opacity - opacity may be used to describe opaque material, impenetrable to visible light or other radiation.

In politics, governmental decision-making that is not conducted publicly may be called opaque. See Transparency (humanities)

In the humanities, opacity is a metaphor used in describing written or spoken language. Here opaque means confusing, unintelligible or unseen. See Transparency (linguistic)

In computer software, functions or data are opaque if their internal mechanisms or data structures cannot be accessed or utilised. This has been found to be advantageous in that it allows the internals of routines and their data structures to be freely modified without affecting programs that utilize those routines.

Opacity and opaque are used in various contexts to describe something that is not transparent.

This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

The content of this page is retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opacity under GFDL