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underfogged

underfogged adjective: insufficiently fogged.

Adjective

underfogged (comparative more underfogged, superlative most underfogged)

  1. Insufficiently fogged.
    • Clearly, if the emulsion is overfogged it will be slow, since the number of holes required to bleach all developable centers will be larger; if underfogged, it will be fast but low in maximum density.1977, Thomas Howard James, The Theory of the Photographic Process, page 189
    • The contrast between the sharply focused vertical line and the blurred horizontal line is maximized. If the eye is underfogged or overfogged, the light distributions of the retinal images of point sources will be oval.2006, William J. Benjamin, Borish's Clinical Refraction

Forms of underfogged

comparativemore underfogged
superlativemost underfogged

Origin of underfogged

From under- + fogged.

Questions about underfogged

What does underfogged mean?
Underfogged means insufficiently fogged.
What part of speech is underfogged?
Underfogged is an adjective.

Words near underfogged in the dictionary

  1. underflows
  2. underflush
  3. underflushes
  4. underfocus
  5. underfocused
  6. underfogged
  7. underfolded
  8. underfollowed
  9. underfong
  10. underfonged
  11. underfonging

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