Transparency meaning

trăns-pârən-sē, -păr-
transparencies
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Transparency is the condition of being see-through.

An example of transparency is the fact that you can see through glass.

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Describes the situation that occurs when companies openly communicate important information to investors and shareholders.
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The quality or state of being transparent.
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(figuratively) Openness, degree of accessibility to view.
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(countable) Specifically, a transparent material with an image on it, that is viewable by shining light through it.
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A transparent object, especially a photographic slide that is viewed by light shining through it from behind or by projection.
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The quality or state of being transparent.
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(uncountable) The quality of being transparent; transparence.
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(countable) A transparent object.
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Something transparent; specif., a piece of transparent or translucent material, esp. a positive film or slide, having a picture or design that is visible when light shines through it or that can be projected on a screen.
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Origin of transparency

Transparency Sentence Examples

  • In shallow seas the transparency is always reduced in rough weather.

  • If the aether were itself constituted of discrete molecules, on the model of material bodies, such transparency would not be conceivable.

  • His work won him the Rumford medal of the Royal Society in 1838, and in 1843 he received its Royal medal for a paper on the "Transparency of the Atmosphere and the Laws of Extinction of the Sun's Rays passing through it."

  • There is a distinct relationship between colour and transparency in the ocean; the most transparent water which is the most free from plankton is always the purest blue, while an increasing turbidity is usually associated with an increasing tint of green.

  • The dressed sheets are sorted according to size, transparency, colour and freedom from spots or stains.

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