turbidity
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English
Etymology
From Latin turbiditās.[1] By surface analysis, turbid + -ity.
Noun
turbidity (countable and uncountable, plural turbidities)
- The state of being turbid; turbidness.
- 2015 August 13, Christiane Schmidt et al., “Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, :
- The variables we considered include solar irradiance and turbidity, which are relevant to the symbiont photosynthesis and yearly minimum temperature, representing potential limiting factors for the holobiont.
- The measure of transparency of a fluid (units of measurement include Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU)).
- 2014, Giorgio Lollino, Andrea Manconi, Jacques Locat, Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 110:
- Over a 5 days period beginning on November 21, 2011 and ending on November 26, 2011 we deployed an array of hydrodynamic and sediment dynamic sensors on a tripod frame, including two turbidity sensors, two pore water pressure sensors, one sea gauge wave tide recorder, one kinemometer, and one acoustic erosion measuring instrument (Fig. 21.2).
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the state of being turbid
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the measure of transparency of a fluid
References
- ^ “turbidity, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
