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translucent medium

[7.5.3.15.3] A medium that transmits visible radiation largely by diffuse transmission, so that objects are not seen distinctly through it.*

 

* International Lighting Vocabulary, CIE S 017/E:2011. Vienna, Austria: International Commission on Illumination; 2011.

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