obscuration
Noun
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Noun
obscuration
- The state of being obscured.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (book), book 3, ch. X, Plugson of Undershot
- Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind!
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (book), book 3, ch. X, Plugson of Undershot
- A unit of measurement used in particular for smoke detectors which respond to absorption of light by smoke, in percent absorption per unit length, e.g. % obs/ft, % obs/m.
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