Meaning of transparency | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being transparent.
   uncountable
2. The quality of being transparent
3. Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.
   uncountable
4. Openness; accessibility to scrutiny
5. (or slide) A photographic image on a transparent base.
6. A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it
7. A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it.
   countable
8. able to be seen through. The box has a transparent lid. deurskynend شَفّاف прозрачен transparente průhledný durchsichtig gennemsigtig διαφανήςtransparente läbipaistev ترا نما läpinäkyvä transparentשקוף पारदर्शक proziran, providan átlátszó tembus pandang gagnsær trasparente 透明な 투명한 permatomas caurspīdīgs lut sinar doorzichtiggjennomsiktig, klarprzezroczysty روڼ، رڼا تیریدونکی transparente transparent прозрачный priehľadný prozoren providan genomskinlig ที่มองผ่านได้ง่าย saydam, şeffaf 透明的 проз...
9. A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it
10. A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it.
    countable
11. deurskynend بِشَفافِيَه прозрачно manifestamente průhledně durchsichtig gennemsigtigt διάφανα transparentemente läbipaistvalt بطور ترانما läpinäkyvästi de manière transparente בְּצוּרָה שְׁקוּפָה सुस्पष्ट prozirnost, providnost átlátszóan secara tembus pandang gagnsætt in maniera trasparente 透き通って 투명하게 perregimai, aiškiai caurspīdīgi; skaidri; nepārprotami dgn jelas doorzichtiggjennomsiktig; gjennomskueligjasno د رڼا تیریدلو په ډول manfestamente (în mod) trans­parent; clar, evident прозрачно ...
12. Something transparent
13. Something transparent.
    countable
14. transparencia; [slide] diapositiva.
15. Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
    countable, uncountable
16. also trans·par·ence (-pâr′əns, -păr′-) The quality or state of being transparent.
17. A transparent object, especially a photographic slide that is viewed by light shining through it from behind or by projection.
18. Also called: transparence the state of being transparent
19. (Photography) Also called: slide a positive photograph on a transparent base, usually mounted in a frame or between glass plates. It can be viewed by means of a slide projector
20. Also, trans•par′ence. the quality or state of being transparent.
21. something transparent, esp. a picture or design on glass or some translucent substance, made visible by light shining through from behind.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“It soon came: as they were on their way to a transparency of their majesties, not a little larger than life—with Bellona, in a very handsome helmet, on one side, and Peace, with a cornucopia and a full blown wreath of roses, on the other—the path was interrupted by a little knot of gentlemen.”

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

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