obscuration

Example Sentences

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Shetland is expected to have a 39% obscuration, which indicates how much of the sun's disc area is covered as a percentage.

From BBC

“Smoke coverage was about the densest, most even all-day obscuration I can remember. Gray, gray, gray!”

From Washington Post

"One possibility is that we are seeing the end of an LBV eruption of a surviving star, with a mild drop in luminosity, a shift to hotter effective temperatures, and some dust obscuration," the authors write.

From Salon

Dust formation, evolution, and obscuration effects in the very high-redshift universe.

From Nature

The distance, elevation, and obscuration make this kind of attack an almost impossible tactical problem for security services.

From Slate