transparencies
- 1Plural of transparency.
The archive stored hundreds of color transparencies from the 1960s.
She loaded the transparencies onto the light table to inspect each frame.
Note
A plural that belongs only to the countable uses of the noun: transparent artworks, and sheets of translucent film carrying an image, both meant to be seen with light shining through them, as on a light table. The quality of being see-through, and openness to scrutiny, are uncountable, so a call for more transparency in government stays singular. Transparencies are things you can hold.
transparencies is a form of transparency
transparency, noun: Openness about actions and decisions; the condition of being accessible to scrutiny. Full entry
- Forms
- transparencytransparencies plural
- Spelling
- transparency → transparencies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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