Transparency

Quick meaning: Transparency is a noun meaning (uncountable) The quality of being transparent.

Meaning

(uncountable) The quality of being transparent.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.
2. (countable, art) A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it.
3. (countable, photography) A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it.
4. (countable) Something transparent.
5. (signal processing) Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.

Example Sentences

John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless.

Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.

According to Bray (Life of Stothard, p. 50), the silversmiths Rundell and Bridge displayed a large transparency by Thomas Stothard, painted in thin oils on canvas and lit from behind, in front of their house on Ludgate Hill in honour of the King's Jubilee in 1810.

Word Forms

• transparencies

Synonyms for transparency

Depending on context, synonyms include transparence, transparentness, foil.

Antonyms for transparency

Common opposites include opacity, opaqueness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transparentness, transparence, foil, transparently, transparent, lucidity.

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