Dictionary

obscuration en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin obscūrātiō. By surface analysis, obscure + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being obscured.
   • At eleven the room darkened, the moon having climbed behind a tree. But the tree being small, and the moon's ascension rapid, this transit was brief, and this obscuration. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
   • 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 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter X, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Forms

Deriveds

obscurationism

Relateds

obscurity · obscurantism

Translations (3)

mi waowao (the act or state of being obscured) · fr obscurcissement (the act or state of being obscured) · es obscurecimiento (the act or state of being obscured)