Transparency

//tɹænsˈpæɹənsi// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being transparent. uncountable
  2. 2
    picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector wordnet
  3. 3
    Openness; accessibility to scrutiny. uncountable

    "And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency."

  4. 4
    the quality of being clear and transparent wordnet
  5. 5
    A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it. countable

    "According to Bray (Life of Stothard, p. 50), the silversmiths Rundell and Bridge displayed a large transparency by Thomas Stothard, painted in thin oils on canvas and lit from behind, in front of their house on Ludgate Hill in honour of the King's Jubilee in 1810."

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  1. 6
    permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation wordnet
  2. 7
    A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it. countable
  3. 8
    Something transparent. countable

    "John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless."

  4. 9
    Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārentia.

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