semitransparent
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To boost the efficiency of solar receivers, Casati turned to semitransparent materials such as quartz, which can trap sunlight -- a phenomenon called the thermal-trap effect.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
The cage-like structures pioneered in Oregon are heavy-duty, semitransparent and easy to clean.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Their delicate fields of blue, mint green, pink, yellow or smudgy white are airy and semitransparent.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2017
One of the mirrors is semitransparent to allow some of the light to pass through.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
People and animals looked out at me from inside the semitransparent walls, their horrified expressions lining each side of the hallway like twisted portraits.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Vocabulary lists containing semitransparent
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: semi-
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