Steve Jobs

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

American Businessman

Think of materials like frosted glass or thin fabric that partially show shapes or light.

Semi-Transparent Materials

Translucence implies you cannot see details through the material, unlike transparency.

Not For Clarity

Translucence often creates a soft, diffused light setting a calm or mystical mood.

Mood Setting

Focus on the material's feature that allows some light through but obscures objects.

Material Aspect

Use 'translucence' to describe and visualize the quality of an object in your writing.

Descriptive Imagery

Describes elements in nature that partially let light pass, like leaves or insect wings.

Natural World

 But they can adapt only so far, and then when all the water is gone from the surface, microbes have only one solution They go underground. And those microbes, the rocks you see in that slide here, well, they are actually living inside rocks and they are using the protection of the translucence of the rocks