Transparency

Transparency

Transparency may refer to:

*Transparency (optics), the physical property of allowing the transmission of light through a material

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

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