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Transparency

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Transparency (optics) is the physical property of allowing the transmission of light through a material. It is the noun form of the word transparent (for example, glass is usually transparent.)

Literal uses:

Electromagnetically induced transparency is an effect in which a medium that is normally opaque at a particular wavelength is caused to become temporarily transparent
Pentimento is an alteration in a painting, often revealed with growing transparency in paints with age
Transparency (photography) is 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

Metaphorical meanings can amount to clear visibility, but also the opposite, invisibility (in particular of irrelevant details).

Transparency may also refer to:

In computing and mathematics:

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:

Budget Transparency, availability of information on the budgetary process
Transparency (humanities), a metaphor implying visibility in politics
Transparency (linguistic), a term used in linguistics and the philosophy of language
Transparency (philosophy), an adjective applied to a state in which the subject can be aware of being in that state
Transparency (market), a term in economics
Media transparency, in the communications industry
Radical transparency in management
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.

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