Transparency

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Transparency (optics) is the property of allowing transmission of light through a material. -noun

Transparency can also refer to:

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 (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

Humanities and business

• 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 s/he is in that state
• Transparency (market), a term in economics
• Media transparency, in the communications industry
• Radical transparency in management
• Transparency (telecommunication), the property that allows a transmission system to pass a signal through without changing its form or information content
• Transparency International, an organization working on governance, corporate, banking and association transparency
• Transparency (Guatemala), a political party in Guatemala (Transparencia)

Material

• 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 transparency growing 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