turbidity

Etymology

From Latin turbiditās. By surface analysis, turbid + -ity.

turbidity means The state of being turbid; turbidness. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.

Why this word is great

TURBIDITY — [Noun] The state or degree of cloudiness or opacity in a fluid, caused by suspended particles. From Latin turbiditās ("muddiness"), from turbidus ("muddy, disturbed, confused"). Unlike "opacity," a static, general barrier to light, or "clarity," its crystalline and absolute antonym, turbidity is a dynamic, particulate chaos—a testament to matter caught between swirling and settling. It is the silt-choked river after a storm, the ochre plume where a delta meets the sea, and the slow, murky drift in a pond after a stone is thrown—a visible record of disturbance, where to see through is to see precisely what obscures, a measure of how much history a liquid carries without letting go.

noun

The state of being turbid; turbidness.“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)).“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).”