Here's the eye with the opaque lens, the opaque lens extracted and an acrylic lens inserted.

The resulting pixel is opaque.

It's why barware is glamorous. Glamour is translucent not transparent, not opaque.

But unfortunately, the ocean is opaque, and we can't see what's going on.

We had two opaque boxes one with government approved THC marijuana, and one with nothing.

In your eye, it becomes a grid formation, and therefore, it becomes transparent, as opposed to opaque.

Truth and beauty are things that are often opaque to people who are not in the sciences.

And in the artificial semen was a radio opaque substance, such that it would show up on an X ray.

Second, the development institutions that channeled these transfers were opaque, with little transparency of what they financed or what results they achieved.

In our eyes, the lens is clear, but in this child, the lens has become opaque, and therefore he can't see the world.

All of that was grammar school stuff compared to efforts to decipher the regime in North Korea, where the truth is far more opaque.

That s the good news. The bad news is that the meeting was restricted to donors and Georgia s government, with Transparency International criticizing its opaque decision making process.

That metal acts as a micro louver, so from the exterior of the building the sun sees it as totally opaque, but from the interior it's entirely transparent.

The active power that information provides is typically the threat of exposure. Such information gives you power primarily in a secretive, opaque world where access to information is limited.

Fortunately, politics is not mathematics though, unfortunately, this means that there are no clear solutions. Indeed, even in the opaque terms of contemporary politics, the German case is particularly vexing.

The fundamental question today is who monitors opaque loans, whether of the sub prime or any other variety. Traditionally, the answer was banks in the securitized world, it remains a question.

This geographical imbalance requires an ordered system of trade, clear regulations, and a well structured global market. Today, however, opaque bilateral agreements abound, and very different environmental requirements and contradictory subsidies coexist.

Frankly, the functioning of the EU and its institutions during the crisis has been a part of the problem. For many people, EU decision making is opaque, inefficient, and removed from democratic control.

American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks noted that Libya has few formal decision making structures, and called it an opaque regime in which lines of authority are deliberately blurred to obscure power structures and mitigate accountability.

Indeed, international institutions have spearheaded breakthroughs in a wide range of areas, including health, finance, economics, human rights, and peacekeeping. But such institutions are largely perceived as inaccessible, inefficient, and opaque, leading national governments to neglect them.

The State party's laws on contempt are opaque, inaccessible and the discretion for the Supreme Court to exercise its own powers of contempt is so wide and unfettered that it fails the test of accessibility and predictability.

We may not yet have the flying cars science fiction promised us, but we can have walls that change color depending on temperature, keyboards that roll up, and windows that become opaque at the flick of a switch.

For economists, the art bubble raises many fascinating questions, but an especially interesting one is exactly who would pay so much for high end art. The answer is hard to know, because the art world is extremely opaque.

Leadership change in most democracies is a relatively transparent process it follows national elections. To be sure, even open democracies have their share of opaque jockeying and deal making in what used to be called smoke filled rooms.

The clearinghouse also enhances transparency, because it can report its aggregate exposures to the regulator, who is better positioned to regulate a central clearinghouse than to regulate many opaque banks. This, too, this should strengthen the financial system.

The opaque nature of the agreement between the National Transitional Government of Liberia and WAMCO has stalled efforts to meeting the requirements of the Security Council for the lifting of the embargo on the export of rough diamonds.

In order to convert this opaque, 90,000 hours of video into something that we could start to see, we use motion analysis to pull out, as we move through space and through time, what we call space time worms.

So it's not all bad news. I mean, there definitely is progress on the line, but I think what we find is that the closer that we get right into the heart of power, the more opaque, closed it becomes.

Given that balance sheet accounting is conducted according to a curious mix of nominal and market values, it can be opaque and easy to manipulate. If prices and thus average debt service capacity fall, the real burden of the debt increases.

Pandering to authoritarian regimes and opaque business interests is not a wholesome enterprise. The contemporary alliance of Western interests in the arts and higher education no less than in sports with rich, undemocratic powers involves compromises that might easily damage established reputations.

Similarly, when it comes to increasing foreign aid budgets, politicians want solutions that are not felt by taxpayers (that is, voters) and that can remain outside of national budgets. However, opaque solutions designed to avoid critical public scrutiny do not seem particularly democratic.

Indeed, this financial repression tax on domestic savers remains a huge opaque source of funding for India s debt ridden government. It also prevents funds from being channeled to private sector investment projects with far higher rates of return than the government can offer.

So, as disputes with the West come to a head, it is important to recognize the power shifts underway inside Iran s opaque political system. Ahmedinejad may be making increasingly challenging statements, but he does not have the authority to act on them.

Once such assets are parked in opaque companies, they are often beyond the reach of tax authorities and investigators. Again and again, the true recipients or beneficial owners of companies and trusts are shielded from disclosure by laws and regulations that inadvertently protect criminals.

The US lacks investment in infrastructure and has excess investment in financial derivatives the result of opaque leverage from over consumption. China suffers from under consumption and possible over investment, and needs to strike a balance between the state owned sector and private enterprise.

Ever since he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the Peoples Republic of China four years ago, Hu Jintao has remained infuriatingly wooden faced and opaque. Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop.

Consider what a change in leadership has done for the Roman Catholic Church Pope Francis is transforming an institution that was thought to be so byzantine, opaque, and intractable that change was all but impossible. If the Catholic Church can change, so can the church of football.

Besides, China is already pouring money into the developing world, often through highly opaque channels. To the extent that the AIIB normalizes a portion of Chinese development assistance, and subjects it to scrutiny from the new bank s advanced country members, the new bank s existence should be all for the better.

Israel s then prime minister, Shimon Peres, was not exactly opaque when he declared in December 1995 that, if given peace, Israel would give up the atom. But the current incumbent, Binyamin Netanyahu, cannot have it both ways, conditioning nuclear disarmament on peace while doing everything he can to stall the peace process.

Opaque and unfair delineation and allocation of land rights in China, together with state monopolies and burdensome bureaucracies, create distortions that give rise to corruption and inequities. China s main priority should be to strengthen its legal institutions to protect property rights, while reducing state ownership and control of resources and large enterprises.

The South Korean and US intelligence services inability to pick up any sign of what had happened attests to the North Korean regime s opaque character, but also to their own deficiencies. American planes and satellites watch North Korea day and night, and the most sensitive intelligence gathering equipment covers the frontier between the two Koreas.

Second, Europeans linguistic skills and cultural knowledge alone ensure that they can make indispensable contributions to US security. The spread of English as the world s language has had a paradoxical effect on American national security, making the United States transparent to people around the world, while making the rest of the world increasingly opaque to Americans.

CAMBRIDGE The opaque nature of China s government makes it difficult to see where Chinese economic policy is heading, and thus how the Chinese economy will develop in the years ahead. But the scale of China s economy and its role in global trade and financial markets compel us to try to understand the intentions of China s new leadership.

This relatively low standing partly reflects China s maintenance of controls on capital flows, which make it hard for financial market participants to get their hands on renminbi. But it is also a result of heavy handed manipulation of the foreign exchange market by the People s Bank of China (PBOC), which makes changes in the price and availability of the renminbi opaque and uncertain.

As a result, firms must dedicate considerable time and effort to dealing with North Korea s often volatile and opaque politics, exemplified in the recent execution of North Korean leader Kim Jong un s powerful uncle, Jang Song thaek. This challenging climate undermines the project s viability, even though the business model based on lower cost workers from the North producing labor intensive goods makes sense.