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OPACIFICATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does opacification mean?
• OPACIFICATION (noun)
The noun OPACIFICATION has 1 sense:
1. the process of becoming cloudy or opaque
Familiarity information: OPACIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of becoming cloudy or opaque
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("opacification" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Derivation:
opacify (become opaque)
Context examples
It is characterized by bilateral scarring and opacification of the conjunctivae.
(Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid, NCI Thesaurus)
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