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
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