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pəˈlu sɪdpel·lu·cid

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparentadjective

    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity

    "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal"

  2. limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuousadjective

    (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

    "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument"

Wiktionary

  1. pellucidadjective

    allowing for the passage of light; transparent

  2. pellucidadjective

    easily understood; clear

  3. Etymology: From pellucidus, from per + lucidus (from whence lucid), from luceo. Compare clear, crystal clear, both also with literal meaning “transparent” but metaphorical meaning “easily understood”.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. PELLUCIDadjective

    Clear; transparent; not opake; not dark.

    Etymology: pellucidus, Lat.

    The colours are owing to the intermixture of foreign matter with the proper matter of the stone: this is the case of agates and other coloured stones, the colours of several whereof may be extracted, and the bodies rendered as pellucid as crystal, without sensibly damaging the texture. John Woodward.

    If water be made warm in any pellucid vessel emptied of air, the water in the vacuum will bubble and boil as vehemently as it would in the open air in a vessel set upon the fire, till it conceives a much greater heat. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

Wikipedia

  1. pellucid

    In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale (one in which the dimensions are much larger than the wavelengths of the photons in question), the photons can be said to follow Snell's law. Translucency (also called translucence or translucidity) allows light to pass through, but does not necessarily (again, on the macroscopic scale) follow Snell's law; the photons can be scattered at either of the two interfaces, or internally, where there is a change in index of refraction. In other words, a translucent material is made up of components with different indices of refraction. A transparent material is made up of components with a uniform index of refraction. Transparent materials appear clear, with the overall appearance of one color, or any combination leading up to a brilliant spectrum of every color. The opposite property of translucency is opacity. When light encounters a material, it can interact with it in several different ways. These interactions depend on the wavelength of the light and the nature of the material. Photons interact with an object by some combination of reflection, absorption and transmission. Some materials, such as plate glass and clean water, transmit much of the light that falls on them and reflect little of it; such materials are called optically transparent. Many liquids and aqueous solutions are highly transparent. Absence of structural defects (voids, cracks, etc.) and molecular structure of most liquids are mostly responsible for excellent optical transmission. Materials which do not transmit light are called opaque. Many such substances have a chemical composition which includes what are referred to as absorption centers. Many substances are selective in their absorption of white light frequencies. They absorb certain portions of the visible spectrum while reflecting others. The frequencies of the spectrum which are not absorbed are either reflected or transmitted for our physical observation. This is what gives rise to color. The attenuation of light of all frequencies and wavelengths is due to the combined mechanisms of absorption and scattering.Transparency can provide almost perfect camouflage for animals able to achieve it. This is easier in dimly-lit or turbid seawater than in good illumination. Many marine animals such as jellyfish are highly transparent.

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  1. pellucid

    Pellucid refers to something that is translucent or clear, allowing the passage of light. It can also refer to something that is very clear in meaning or easy to understand.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pellucidadjective

    transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque

  2. Etymology: [L. pellucidus; per (see Per-) + lucidus clear, bright: cf. F. pellucide.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Pellucid

    pe-lū′sid, adj. perfectly clear: letting light through: transparent.—ns. Pellūcid′ity, Pellū′cidness.—adv. Pellū′cidly. [Fr.,—L. pellucidusper, perfectly, lucidus, clear—lucēre, to shine.]

Entomology

  1. Pellucid

    colored, but transparent: sometimes applied when there is no color.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pellucid in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pellucid in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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