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What does obfuscation mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
  2. (uncountable) Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
  3. (countable) A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
  4. (computing) The option to alter computer code, preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
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The adjective, of course, is adminicular, which I intend to use whenever maximum obfuscation is desired.
Suitably chastened, may I humbly entreat him to, unambiguously and without obfuscation, answer a few pertinent questions?
We have come a long way from the days when central bankers relied primarily on obfuscation and mystique.
There is none of the deliberate obfuscation characteristic of so much architectural theory.
The big question is whether we will seize that opportunity or again let the transport debate get mired in political infighting and obfuscation.
The Americans employed Navajo during the last war as an extra level of obfuscation.

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