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opaque

/əʊˈpeɪk/

noun

Meaning

  • An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.

  • Something which is opaque rather than translucent.

verb

Meaning

  • To make, render (more) opaque.

Synonyms

blur,
cloud

adjective

Meaning

  • Neither reflecting nor emitting light.

  • Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.

  • Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of

  • Obtuse, stupid.

  • Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.