Transparency

• Transparency (optics), the physical property of allowing the transmission of light through a material

Literal uses:

• Electromagnetically induced transparency, an effect in which a medium that is normally opaque at a particular wavelength is caused to become temporarily transparent
• Pentimento, an alteration in a painting, often revealed with growing transparency in paints with age
• Transparency (photography), a still, positive image created on a transparent base using photochemical means
• Transparency (projection), a thin sheet of transparent material for use with an overhead projector

In computing and mathematics:

• Transparency (computing), user and engineering design considerations, including
• Location transparency if the names used to identify network resources are independent of both the user's location and the resource location
• Network transparency if there is no difference between the centralized database and the distributed database
• Transparency (data compression), the ideal result of lossy data compression
• Transparency (telecommunication), the property by which a transmission system passes a signal through without changing its form or content
• Transparency (graphic), for overlay and translucency in PNG, GIF, and TIFF files
• Transparency (pseudo), or background translucency in the X or X11 Window System
• Referential transparency in programming designates a deterministic function

In humanities and business:

• Media transparency, in the communications industry
• Radical transparency in management
• Transparency (humanities), a metaphor implying visibility in politics
• Transparency (linguistic), a term used in linguistics and the philosophy of language
• Transparency (market), a term in economics
• Transparency (philosophy), an adjective applied to a state in which the subject can be aware of being in that state
• Transparency International, an organization working for governance, corporate, banking and association transparency
• Transparency (Guatemala), a political party in Guatemala (Transparencia)
• Transparent (album)
• Transparent (film) (the movie)