opacity

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Fireworks application works at the object level meaning that any attribute which is applied to the layer like a blend mode or the opacity is actually applied to all the objects which are contained within that layer.

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  1. noun The quality or state of being opaque.
  2. noun Something opaque.
  3. noun Obscurity; impenetrability.

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  • Not with this dark opacity, as if something had left him. —  PurchasedforRevenge
  • The reason the greenhouse effect works is that at any given wavelength wherein the air has some finite opacity, the absorption / emission cross section of air at some level hides the radiation —  RealClimate
  • At wavelengths where there is just sufficient opacity, the atmosphere looks like a surface on a large scale, although it will not radiate as a perfect blackbody because it is not isothermal across the visible depth - but at sufficiently high opacity, individual nearly-isothermal layers of air will act, radiatively, like surfaces. —  RealClimate
  • By using opacity, the framework preserves the theme styling for the button but makes it appear to be dimmed out and unclickable. —  doggdot.us
  • It would save a few moments of setting the opacity, and it auto-locks the layer. —  Pixel2Life.com: Latest 15 Tutorials
 

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  1. French opacité, from Old French, from Latin opācitās, from opācus, dark.

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  1. = French opacité = Spanish opacidad = Portuguese opacidade = Italian opacità, from Latin opacita(t-)s, shadiness, shade, from opacus, shaded, shady, dark: see opaque.
 

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/əˈpæsəti/
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