mean opacity
C8248
concept
Mean opacity is an averaged measure of how opaque a material is to radiation across a range of wavelengths, used to simplify radiative transfer calculations in astrophysics and atmospheric physics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| mean opacity canonical | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: mean opacity
Generated description
Mean opacity is an averaged measure of how opaque a material is to radiation across a range of wavelengths, used to simplify radiative transfer calculations in astrophysics and atmospheric physics.
Instances (1)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Rosseland mean opacity | — |