Transparency

Transparency is the property of allowing the 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 may also refer to:

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 (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:

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'')

Transparent (album)

Transparent (film) . the movie.

Other uses:

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

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