transparency
Pluraltransparencies (some meanings)
- 1Being open and honest, so people can see and check what you do.
Like a glass box: everyone can see what is happening inside.
The school promised more transparency about how it spends money.
Voters want transparency from their leaders before the election.
Similaropenness, candor, accountability, frankness
Oppositesecrecy, opacity, concealment
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- 2How clear something is, so light can pass through and you can see what is behind it.
The transparency of the water let us see fish near the bottom of the lake.
This plastic loses its transparency after years in the sun.
Similartransparence, transparentness
Oppositeopacity, opaqueness
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- 4A piece of art on clear material that you look at by shining light through it.
The artist made a transparency that glowed when the sun hit the window.
At the festival, huge transparencies hung over the street, lit from behind at night.
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- 5Something you can see through, like clear glass or plastic.
The cover is a transparency, so you can read the first page through it.
The roof panel is a transparency that lets sunlight into the hall.
Similaroverlay
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- 6When a smaller, compressed copy of a sound or picture seems exactly like the original.
Like a copy so good that no one can tell it from the original.
At this setting, the music files reach transparency, so they sound just like the CD.
You lose transparency if you make the file too small.
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Origin
It comes from a Medieval Latin word, trānspārentia.