🚫 Blocked or closed 🧪 Trapped inside

occluded

9.1

Held inside another material, like gas trapped in a mineral

adjective
/əˈkluːdɪd/

Specialized

: ocluido

The experiment showed how particles could be occluded within the solid matter of the mineral.

Examples

The red dye was occluded by the clear gel, making it invisible until the gel was removed.
How do we decide that this point on the surface is being occluded by another object somewhere else in the scene?
There are no chairs, though I do see my hands occluded in here.
But if you flip them, then the projector can't eliminate like occluded stuff.
As the fog rolled in, it occluded the view of the mountain range, obscuring the scenery.

Synonyms

saturated

vsoccluded

2 3.4

Completely soaked with liquid so it cannot absorb any more

is about being taken in and held inside rather than full capacity

sorbed

vsoccluded

Specialized

9.9

A substance that another material holds inside it or on its surface

is retained only inside the other material rather than on its surface

Antonyms

exposed

1.8

Not covered by clothes and showing skin

Compounds

occluded front

Specialized

1 7.5

A weather front when a cold front catches a warm front and lifts the warm air above the cold air

How Enclosed

occluded

Specialized

9.1

absorbed

Specialized

4.8

included

1.0

free

Specialized

78 6.3

Surface Forms

occluded positive

Morphology

occluded = occlude (semi-transparent) = occlude + ed

The adjective is formed from 'occlude', but the specialized sense 'taken into and retained inside another substance' is a technical extension that may not be obvious to general learners.

Etymology

Occluded comes from the Latin parts ob- 'against' and claudere 'to close', the same root as the common word close. A helpful way to remember the scientific sense is to think of a gas or liquid being 'closed in'—held inside a solid so it cannot get out.