Definition of "turbid"
turbid
adjective
comparative more turbid, superlative most turbid
Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)
Quotations
He seeks in vain to occupy his days with rural pursuits; he to whom the excitements of a metropolis, with all its corruption and its vices, were the sole sources of the turbid stream that he called "pleasure!"
1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “Final Chapter”, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume IV, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book twelfth, page 283
This makes the estimation of the refractive index of the turbid liquid quite problematic.
2004, Jukka A. Räty, Kai-Erik Peiponen, Toshimitsu Asakura, UV-Visible Reflection Spectroscopy of Liquids, page 30
In the turbid state, the development of submerged vegetation is prevented by low underwater light levels.
2013, Marten Scheffer, Ecology of Shallow Lakes, page ix
Quotations
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In the aforementioned paragraph 406 of the Encyclopedia, magnetic ecstasy is described as a confused and turbid experience because its content does not present itself in rational form: for this reason the state of the somnambulist should not be considered as a possible path to cognition (Erkenntnis).
2016, Cecilia Muratori, The First German Philosopher