Transparency

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

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

Transparency can also refer to these:

See through things Computing 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 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