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Definition: Transparency |
TransparencyNoun1. Permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation. 2. The quality of being clear and transparent. 3. Picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "transparency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Transparency \Trans*par"en*cy\, noun; plural Transparencies. [Compare to the French expression transparence.]. (references) |
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Agriculture | A World Trade Organization principle stipulating that a country's policies and regulations affecting foreign trade should be clearly communicated to its trading partners. For example, out of recognition that sanitary and phytosanitary measures may (sometimes deliberately) be unclear, arbitrary, or capricious, recent international trading agreements have provisions calling on countries to notify others, in advance, about any measures that could affect trade, to fully explain them, and to provide a means for commenting on them. (references) |
Computing | Quality of a function, or process not noticed or seen or directly implemented by the operator or user. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Ies are large slides for use with an overhead projector from the front of a lighted room. They project a large brilliant picture. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Economics | The extent to which laws, regulations, agreements, and practices affecting international trade are open, clear, measurable, and verifiable. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The state of a frame content which does not include a flag sequence simulation between the two flag sequences. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A transparent state may be said to exist between two defined points when a signal which exists at one point can be transmitted to the second point without any loss or change of information. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | Consists of pictures, designs or lettering in single or multiple colours, lithographed or otherwise printed on absorbent lightweight paper, often backed with a supporting paper of heavier qu ality; used for decoration or utility purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The ability of e. g. paper to admit the passage of light in such a manner that the shape and other characteristics of the light source and illuminated objects are clearly visible through the paper. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Military | An image fixed on a clear base by means of a photographic, printing, chemical or other process, especially adaptable for viewing by transmitted light. See also diapositive. (references) |
Mining | A. The degree to which visible light is transmitted through a solid. A mineral is termed transparent if objects can be clearly seen through it, as through glass; e.g., rock crystal (quartz), selenite (gypsum), Iceland spar (calcite), and gem diamond. Syn:diaphaneity opaque. b. The capacity of seawater to transmit light; the depth to which water is transparent may be measured by use of a Secchi disc. c. A positive image, either black and white or in color, on a clear base (glass or film), intended to be viewed by transmitted light; adiapositive. e.g., rock crystal (quartz), selenite (gypsum), Iceland spar (calcite), and gem diamond. Syn:diaphaneity opaque. b. The capacity of seawater to transmit light; the depth to which water is transparent may be measured by use of a Secchi disc. c. A positive image, either black and white or in color, on a clear base (glass or film), intended to be viewed by transmitted light; adiapositive. (references) |
Physics | A material shows transparency when it transmits light without scattering. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | Shall mean the right of respondents to have information on the legal basis, the purposes for which the data are required and the protective measures adopted. The authorities responsible for collecting Community statistics shall take every step to supply such information. Source: European Union. (references) |
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- transparency (optics)
- transparency (overhead projector)
- market transparency
- transparency (telecommunication)
- transparency (computing)
- Transparency International is an organization working for transparency, i.e., accountability, in governance.
- referential transparency
- transparency (humanities)
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The basic meaning of the word transparency is in the physical sciences — specifically, in optics: a physical object is transparent if one can see through it; see transparency (optics). The sense of the word used here began as a metaphorical extension of that meaning.In sociology, politics, ethics, law, economics, business, management, etc., transparency is the opposite of privacy; an activity is transparent if all information about it is freely available. Thus when courts of law admit the public, when fluctuating prices in financial markets are published in newspapers, those processes are transparent; when military authorities classify their plans as secret, transparency is absent. See also market transparency.
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In optics, transparency is the property of being transparent, i.e. allowing light to pass. For example air and some other gases, clear water, various other liquids, glass (usually), and plastic (sometimes, e.g. perspex), are transparent. If the amount of transparency depends on the wavelength of the light then the glass, etc., is tinted. This may for instance be due to certain metallic oxide molecules in glass, or (larger) colored particles, as in (light) colored smoke. If many of these colored particles are present the gas, liquid or solid becomes opaque, e.g. dense smoke.There are transparent glass walls that can be made opaque by the press of a button, see ICE.
"Transparent" materials can be seen through (such as a common glass window), whereas "translucent" materials allow some light to pass through them but cannot be seen through (for example frosted glass).
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A transparency is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically celluloid, onto which figures can be drawn. These are then placed on an overhead projector for display to an audience. This system is still found in schools, but has been largely replaced by LCD projector screens.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transparency (overhead projector)."
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In photography, a transparency is a still, positive image created on a transparent base using photochemical means. The terms slide and reveresal film are also used. Contrast with negative and print.The earliest practical color photography was the Kodachrome process, which produced color transparencies. Originally used mainly for news reportage, it gradually gained wider popularity. As a medium for serious amateurs, it gained popularity as an alternative to black and white print film starting in about 1945. At this time, color print film had many shortcomings including high cost of film and processing and short print life. Amateurs who could afford slide film and projection equipment used it extensively until about 1970, when color print film began to displace it.
Through about 1995, color transparencies were the only photographic medium used for serious publishing, and were widely used in commerical and advertising photography, reportage, sports, stock, and nature photography. Digital media have since gradually replaced transparencies in many of these applications. The use of slides for artists submitting to juried shows or applying for solo exhibitions, applying to art schools or for residencies (or the like), however, is still nearly universal for a number of reasons, among which is the actual or perceived lack of colour fidelity in digital media.
A slide is a special type of transparency intended to be projected onto a screen using a slide projector. This allows the photograph to be viewed by a room-full of people at the same time. Slides were at one time an important media for presentations, but the widespread availability of LCD projectors has made the market almost go away.
The most common form of modern slide is the 35mm slide, basically a positive-image printing onto the standard 35mm film used in the movie industry, then placed inside a cardboard or plastic shell. Older projectors used a sliding mechanism to manually pull the transparency out of the side of the machine, where it could be replaced by the next image, and it is from this that we get the name "slide". Modern projectors typically use a carousel that holds a large number of slides, and viewed by a mechanism that automatically pulls a single slide out of the carousel and places it in front of the lamp.
Transparency film, in sizes ranging from 35mm roll film up to 8x10" sheet film, are produced by Kodak, Agfa, Konica, Scotch, and Fuji. Essentially all film sold today uses either the E-6 process or the K-22 process, with the overwhelming majority using the E-6 process.
Black and white transparencies can be made with many types of black and white film using modified processing. This is rarely done except in motion picture use.
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In telecommunication, the term transparency has the following meanings:1. The property of an entity that allows another entity to pass thorough it without altering either of the entities.
2. The property that allows a transmission system or channel to accept, at its input, unmodified user information, and deliver corresponding user information at its output, unchanged in form or information content.
Note: The user information may be changed internally within the transmission system, but it is restored to its original form prior to the output without the involvement of the user.
3. The quality of a data communications system or device that uses a bit-oriented link protocol that does not depend on the bit sequence structure used by the data source.
4. An image fixed on a clear base by means of a photographic printing, chemical, or other process, especially adaptable for viewing by transmitted light.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 and from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transparency (telecommunication)."
Synonyms: TransparencySynonyms: foil (n), transparence (n), transparentness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: opacity (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Transparency |
| English words defined with "transparency": Crizzel ♦ Diaphaneity, Diaphanometer ♦ Fairy shrimp, Fengite ♦ Glass-crab, ground glass ♦ hyaline, hyaloid, Hyalotype ♦ John Tyndall ♦ lantern slide ♦ Maroon lake ♦ overhead ♦ Semidiaphaneity, slide ♦ Transparencies, Tyndall ♦ viewgraph. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "transparency": application layer ♦ bit oriented, bits per pixel ♦ Corneal Opacity, Crystallins ♦ earth amber, electronic scanner operator, extensional equality ♦ fence diagram, functional programming ♦ GLASS-BULB-MACHINE FORMER, TUBULAR STOCK, Goffin ♦ hydrophotometer ♦ laser-beam-color-scanner operator ♦ maatschappelijk, Mandatory price reporting ♦ network transparency ♦ photochromic dye, photochromic material, procedural shader, projection print ♦ referentially transparent ♦ SCANNER OPERATOR, sonograph, spectacle stone, stains. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "transparency": Semidiaphaneity. (references) |
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Clever | What passes as a woman's intuition is usually nothing more than a man's transparency. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Transparency (1969) | |
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 | (20) color slides. (14) 8x10 color prints, (1) 8x10 black and white print. (1) 8x10 black and white negative, (1) 8x10 color transparency negative (original). Shows close-up of human face, straight on, showing both eyes, an example of a patient with retinoblastoma. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | "Rotating Transparent Plane" by Rod Rodrigues. Use the Scrollbar to vary A and rotate the plane. Transparency makes it easier to see how the plane intersects the surface. |
 | Figure 1. A plastic Secchi disk of recent origin. This disk is lowered in the water until it disappears from sight. The depth at which it disappears is a measure of the water's transparency. Father Angelo Secchi devised this method in 1865 and tested it aboard the Vatican vessel IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE. Several models were tested of different colors. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Seaman 1st Class Leonard A. Cassidy spots model aircraft on the ship's "ouija board" hangar and flight deck planning boards, in response to the telephoned orders of air officers. The nearer board represents the flight deck, with the hangar deck board behind it. Aircraft types represented include F6F, TBM and SB2C. The original color transparency was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 15 June 1945. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Ships maneuvering off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, on 9 August 1942. Photographed from USS Ellet (DD-398). USS Chicago (CA-29) is at right, with a destroyer's stern and wake in the foreground. Column of smoke in the left center distance, beyond the two destroyers, may be from the burning USS George F. Elliott (AP-13). The original color transparency was a 35mm slide. Credit: NAVY. |  | Officers, including members of Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal's party, at Piva Airfield during an inspection trip in late 1943 or early 1944. Among those present are: Commodore W.R. Carter (3rd from left); Vice Admiral A.W. Fitch (2nd from right); and Captain J.E. Gingrich (right). The original Kodachrome color transparency was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory in March 1944. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Inspection of mess personnel, while the ship was moored off Shanghai, China, in September-November 1945. Photographed by PhoM2c Frank E. Parsons. The original transparency was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 13 December 1945. Credit: NAVY. |  | A WAVE gets her "shots" from a Navy doctor, as nurses stand by. Photographed prior to January 1945. The original transparency was a 35mm slide. Credit: NAVY. |
 | View of transparency in front of headquarters of Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments . . . Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Original design of an illumination & transparency, part of which was executed by command of the Queen in June 1762, in honour of his majesty's birthday / D. Cunego, sculp., Roma ; R. Adam, architect, 1762. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "He who rocks hardest..." by Justin Baker Commentary: "Timothy Green rocking out... hard. Shot taken with Fujifilm Velvia (50 ISO) transparency film. Shooting a daylight balanced film under fluorescent lighting conditions can prove to be interesting. I enjoyed the contrast between the guitar and the bg, as w" |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | What had been thinness in her youth had become in maturity transparency, and this etherialness permitted gleams of the angel within |
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Health | The collagen's unique shape, arrangement, and spacing are essential in producing the cornea's light-conducting transparency. (references) | |
Collagen gives the cornea its strength, elasticity, and form. The collagen's unique shape, arrangement, and spacing are essential in producing the cornea's light-conducting transparency. (references) | ||
Business | Mexico's record in internal union democracy and transparency is mixed. (references) | |
This body's mission is to assure the transparency of business transactions. (references) | ||
The pending introduction of the Euro will increase transparency and lower price pressure. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mozambique | Government media were showing greater transparency in reporting and some independence of editorial content. (references) |
Syria | In his July 2000 inaugural speech, President Bashar Al-Asad emphasized the principle of media transparency. (references) | |
Mongolia | Lack of access to information and of transparency in government continues to inhibit political dialog in the media, and led to media complaints. (references) | |
Economic History | New Zealand | The new rules offer foreign investors greater transparency and predictability. (references) |
Moldova | A local Transparency International NGO was created and registered in July 2000. (references) | |
Australia | Both Australian law and government practice foster transparency and favor competition. (references) | |
Human Rights | Romania | Often victims are reluctant to come forward, and the Government does not promote transparency in this regard. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Amnesty International, Transparency International, and the International Committee of the Red Cross operate in the country. (references) | |
Morocco | Adib remains an Amnesty International "Prisoner of Conscience," and in 2000 was awarded a Transparency International Integrity Award. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | Indigenous people displaced by the Bakun Dam project in Sarawak continue to protest the lack of transparency in the resettlement process, inadequate compensation for their lands and homes, and destruction of their traditional way of life. (references) |
Political Economy | BRAZIL | Brazilian policy on biotech remains inconsistent and lacks transparency. (references) |
MOROCCO | The Moroccan government has placed an increasing emphasis on transparency. (references) | |
Political Rights | Georgia | The OSCE also raised concerns about the transparency of the candidate registration process and ballot distribution. (references) |
China | A 1998 revision to the law called for improvements in the nominating process and improved transparency in village committee administration. (references) | |
Madagascar | Other parties criticized the elections as poorly organized and fraudulent; a lack of transparency made it difficult to assess reliably the extent of abuses. (references) | |
Trade | China | However, despite this progress transparency is still a problem. (references) |
China | Likewise, China's anti-dumping regime lacks the transparency called for by WTO rules. (references) | |
China | China is clarifying its licensing procedures in accordance with the WTO's transparency requirement. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | Labor Code reforms adopted in May contained provisions designed to further simplify the Ministry's application and recognition process, and strengthen union members' ability to demand transparency in union activities. (references) |
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| "Transparency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.03% of the time. "Transparency" is used about 206 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.03% | 204 | 21,327 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 206 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "transparency": color transparency ♦ network transparency ♦ referential transparency. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "transparency": non-transparency. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "transparency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tejdukshmëri, diapozitiv. (various references) | |
Arabic | صورة شفافة, رسم شفاف, شفافية (impressionability, limpidity, lucidity, sensitiveness, tenderness, translucence), شىء شفاف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сиятелство, прозрачност (limpidity, limpness, lucidity, transparence), диапозитив (slide, slide projector). (various references) | |
Chinese | 透明度 (openness). (various references) | |
Czech | prùhlednost, diapozitiv (slide). (various references) | |
Danish | transparens, transfer (decal, decalcomania, sticker, transfer, window sticker), overfoeringsbillede (decal, decalcomania, sticker, transfer, window sticker), gennemsigtighed (data-transparent, speed-transparent, translucency, transparent), diapositiv. (various references) | |
Dutch | transparentie, transparantie, transfer (remittance, remittance of money, transfer), overdrukplaatje (decal, decalcomania, sticker, transfer, window sticker), doorzichtig plaatje, decalcomanie (decal, decalcomania, sticker, transfer, window sticker), decalco (decal, decalcomania, sticker, transfer, window sticker). (various references) | |
Finnish | raina (film strip, slide), läpinäkyvyys, läpikuultavuus (translucence), kuultokuva (slide), kuulakkuus (limpidness), koodiriippumattomuus. (various references) | |
French | transparence (transparence), diapositive. (various references) | |
German | Transparenz (clarity, diaphaneity, lucency, lucidity), Durchsichtigkeiten (translucency), Durchsichtigkeit (clarity, diaphanousness, insightfulness, lucidity, obviousness, pellucidness, transparence). (various references) | |
Greek | διαφάνεια (transparence, transparentness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שקיפות (lucidity), שקופית (slide), שקוף (apparent, clear, crystalline, pellucid, transillumination, transparent, x ray examination), זגות, השתקפות (reflection). (various references) | |
Hungarian | diapozitív (diapositive, lantern-slide, positive, slide), dia (diapositive, slide), áttetszőség, átlátszóság (clarity, transmittance). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebeningan (clearness). (various references) | |
Italian | trasparenza (limpidity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 透明 (cleanness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すかしえ, トラペン , トランスペアレンシー , とうかせい (permeability), とうめいど (degree of clearness), とうめいせい, とうめい (cleanness). (various references) | |
Korean | 투명도 (Transparencies). (various references) | |
Manx | tarhoilshan, sollyssid (brightness, brilliance, clearness, gloss, illustration, lightness, luminosity, lustre, polish, radiance, resplendence, sheen). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ansparencytray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | transparência (lucidity). (various references) | |
Romanian | transparenţã (lucidity, lucidness, pellucidness, transparence), claritate (clarity, clearness, definition, distinctness, evidence, explicitness, fairness, limpidity, lucidity, neatness, palpability, perspicuity, simplicity, tangibility). (various references) | |
Russian | транспарант, прозрачность;слайд, прозрачность (clarity, limpidity, perspicuity, translucence, translucency). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | transparencija, slajd, prozračnost, prozirnost (limpidity), providnost. (various references) | |
Spanish | transparencia (clarity, diaphanousness), diapositiva (slide). (various references) | |
Swedish | genomsynlighet, Genomskinlighet (limpidity, translucence). (various references) | |
Turkish | slayt (lantern slide, slide, transparent slide), saydamlık, şeffaflık (clearness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | прозорість (brightness, clarity, clearness, perspicuity, transmittance). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đuỵ iến uyên thưa tướng công. (various references) | |
Welsh | tryloywder. (various references) | |
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"Transparency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: transparancy, transparens, transparenty, transpareny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "transparency" (pronounced transpe"runsē) |
| 5 | -r u n s ē | vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, latency, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, truancy, urgency, vacancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
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| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-n-n-p-r-r-s-t-y" | |
-3 letters: carpentry, catnapers, parcenary, peasantry. | |
-4 letters: ancestry, cantraps, catenary, caterans, catnaper, cyanates, encrypts, narrates, pancreas, partners, partyers, prancers, stannary. | |
-5 letters: anapest, annates, apyrase, arpents, canapes, canners, cannery, canters, cantrap, capstan, captans, carates, carnets, carneys, carpers, carpets, carters, catenas, cateran, catnaps, craters, cyanate, encrypt, entraps, errancy, errants, erratas, narrate, nascent, nectars, nectary, parents, partans, partner. | |
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