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How to pronounce “opaque”
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Pronunciation guide for opaque
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of opaque with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How to Govern AI — Even If It’s Hard to Predict
and even the parts we don't understand won't be opaque forever.
- Definition summary
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
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How to pronounce opaque
How to Govern AI — Even If It’s Hard to Predict

and even the parts we don't understand won't be opaque forever.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “opaque”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- (figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
- (figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
- (computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- [Noun]
- (obsolete, poetic) An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
- Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To make, render (more) opaque.
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