Opaque in a sentence as an adjective

At the time, app purchases were handled exclusively by the carrier and were completely opaque.

I am sure you will miss out on a lot of traffic and future sign-ups because the initial experience is opaque.

[1] Key car features and options are bundled in arbitrary packages and priced in ways that make pricing even more opaque.

One problem is that WiFi is completely opaque, especially but not only on Linux.

We see fewer problems at companies that dump blobs with opaque names into S3 than we do with apps that have a file repository with named files.

For a project ostensibly inspired by K&R C, the copy on this site is amazingly opaque and full of its own rhetoric.

You simply can not help but create an abstraction that not only leaks like a sieve, but is actually multiple leaky sieves layered on top of each other in opaque ways.

Trying to create a declarative language is a way of making it extraordinarily opaque as to what the machine is actually going to do.

Usually the abstraction language is opaque to newcomers, and frustratingly so.

"To break the minute barrier [they] fired a control laser at an opaque crystal, sending its atoms into a quantum superposition of two states.

The price of every vehicle is fully negotiable but the negotiating room is opaque.

But the divisions between phone, tablet, "ultralight laptop" and "main laptop" are arbitrary and increasingly opaque.

[1] In liberal democracies, the organs of foreign policy are designed to be opaque and non-responsive to the public.

For virtually everyone living in a big city, judicial elections are entirely opaque; city papers don't even cover them.

I think you miss the point, which is that the process is insanely opaque, which you note yourself by saying> if you get really involved in the siteWhen I meet wikipedia people here in SF, they say, "Get involved!

It works perfectly well in practice to imagine rebasing as the developer having implemented their topic branch instantaneously based on the current state, and resolving conflicts on a commit-by-commit basis rather than accumulating them into one opaque merge commit.> It's so tempting to stay on master, to think "It's just a quick fix, it's not worth branching for!

Opaque definitions

adjective

not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"

adjective

not clearly understood or expressed

See also: unintelligible