turbidity
Suspended particle haze
Turbidity is cloudiness or haziness in a liquid caused by suspended particles.
Water with high turbidity appears murky rather than clear: The turbidity of the river increased after the storm.
The term appears most often in environmental science and water quality testing, where turbidity indicates pollution or sediment levels.
Dark and unclear
- cloudyObscured by atmosphere
- muddyObscured by silt
- siltyContaining fine earth deposits
- brackishMildly salty water
opaque · hazy · milky · unclear · suspended · particulate · colloidal · stirred
Waterborne earth particles
- clayMoldable earth for ceramics
- sandFine rock particles
- particlesMinute pieces of matter
- detritusLoose waste from decay
alluvium · fluvial · deposition · erosion · settling · benthic · substrate · loess
State of being unknown
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- murkinessDimness, lack of clarity
- opacityImpermeability to light
- vaguenessAbsence of precision
cloudiness · muddled · unclear · obfuscation · ambiguity · haziness · nebulousness · indistinctness
Excess water drainage
- effluentDischarged liquid waste
- contaminationIntroduction of impurities
- wastewaterContaminated drainage from buildings
- stormwaterSurface flow from precipitation
agricultural · erosion · eutrophication · dredging · construction · discharge · sedimentation · degradation
Measuring light wavelength absorption
- clarityState of being understandable
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
- absorbanceLight uptake measurement
- transmittanceFraction not absorbed
monitoring · sampling · threshold · standard · quantitative · analytical · sensor · probe
murky
Dark and unclear
brackish · opaque · hazy · milky · unclear · suspended · particulate · colloidal · stirred · churned
silt
Waterborne earth particles
detritus · alluvium · fluvial · deposition · erosion · settling · benthic · substrate · loess · colloid
obscurity
State of being unknown
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- murkinessDimness, lack of clarity
- opacityImpermeability to light
vagueness · cloudiness · muddled · unclear · obfuscation · ambiguity · haziness · nebulousness · indistinctness · impenetrability
runoff
Excess water drainage
- effluentDischarged liquid waste
- contaminationIntroduction of impurities
- wastewaterContaminated drainage from buildings
stormwater · agricultural · erosion · eutrophication · dredging · construction · discharge · sedimentation · degradation · impairment
spectrophotometry
Measuring light wavelength absorption
- clarityState of being understandable
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
- absorbanceLight uptake measurement
transmittance · monitoring · sampling · threshold · standard · quantitative · analytical · sensor · probe · reading
- river sciencehydrology, streamflow, flow rate, water flow, water volume
- liquid qualitieswatery, viscosity, runny, thick, thin
- water qualitiesmurky, taste, odor, color, fresh
- abiotic factorssunlight, temperature, water, oxygen, soil
- Environmental Monitoringweather station, sensor, data logger, remote sensing, satellite
- Lake Carewater clarity, water quality, water testing, water level, dredging
turbidityclarity
State of being understandable
clearness · transparency · limpidity · pellucidity · translucence
turbidityclarity
State of being understandable
clearness · lucidity · comprehensibility · perspicuity · intelligibility
disturb, disturbance, disturbing, disturbed, perturb, turbid, perturbed, perturbation, disturber