TURBIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turbidity mean? 

• TURBIDITY (noun)
  The noun TURBIDITY has 1 sense:

1. muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended

  Familiarity information: TURBIDITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURBIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

turbidity; turbidness

Hypernyms ("turbidity" is a kind of...):

cloudiness; muddiness; murkiness (the quality of being cloudy)

Derivation:

turbid ((of liquids) clouded as with sediment)

 Context examples 

A method that measures the absorbance of light from a sample which is used for quantifying an amount of analyte based on the level of turbidity produced by the formation and precipitation of an immune complex containing the analyte.

(Immunoturbidimetry, NCI Thesaurus)