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transparencies

  • plural
    of transparency.
    transparency
    noun
    Also transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.

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Each section fills out the fuller picture as though Cregger is layering transparencies on top of an overhead projector.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2025

Among them facsimiles of relevant ephemera are bound in mismatching formats: foldout drawings, transparencies, die-cuttings and pamphlets whose archival relevance you must flip through to ascertain.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

The lot of 38 original prints, 12 rolls of film and colour transparencies, all taken in 1964 and 1965, will be sold with full copyright.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2023

There are also more than 70,000 pictures, prints, slides, negatives, large format transparencies and contact sheets taken by famed photographers including Terry O’Neill and Helmut Newton.

From Reuters Feb. 23, 2023

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood