transparency
[trans-pair-uh n-see, -par-]
- Also trans·par·ence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- something transparent, especially a picture, design, or the like on glass or some translucent substance, made visible by light shining through from behind.
- Photography.
- the proportion of the light that is passed through the emulsion on an area of a photographic image.
- a photographic print on a clear base for viewing by transmitted light.
Origin of transparency
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Examples from the Web for transparency
Contemporary Examples
The old culture of the Party of Regions—its lack of transparency, the graft and the shady deal making—has returned.
The question, of course, is how far LDS authorities will go in this new commitment to transparency.
They are meant to show that the Church has adopted a new line of transparency on clerical sex abuse.
We need to believe that Taylor's actions yesterday are pure, or the transparency loses its potency.
Taylor Swift Dumps Spotify, Igniting Turf War Between Spotify and AppleDale Eisinger
November 4, 2014
Now Gore stands alone in his dismissal of reform, openness, transparency and peer-review to ensure good science.
Historical Examples
It is the radiations of light which they throw off; it is their luminosity—their transparency.
Sex=The Unknown QuantityAli Nomad
That lamp was her charming soul, which exposed to view the transparency of her flesh.
King CandaulesThophile Gautier
The transparency of this sentence is not unlike the transparency of corrugated glass.
The VerbalistThomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
This lack of transparency and openness is ever the result of sin.
The Calvary RoadRoy Hession
At the same time he held out a hand which was wasted almost to transparency.
The Golden ShoemakerJ. W. Keyworth
transparency
- Also called: transparence the state of being transparent
- 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
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Word Origin and History for transparency
n.
1610s, "condition of being transparent," from Medieval Latin transparentia, from transparentem (see transparent). Meaning "that which is transparent" is from 1590s; of pictures, prints, etc., from 1785; in photography from 1866.
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