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Transparency may refer to:
- Transparency (optics), the physical property of allowing the transmission of light through a material
- Transparent materials
In the field of optics, transparency is the physical property of allowing light to pass through a material. The opposite property is opacity. Transparent materials are clear . Translucent materials allow light to pass through them only diffusely In the field of optics, transparency is the physical...
, materials which exhibit the physical property of allowing the transmission of light. A description of the physical mechanisms responsible for the absorption and/or scattering of electromagnetic radiation (or light).
Literal uses:
- Electromagnetically induced transparency
Electromagnetically induced transparency is a coherent optical nonlinearity which renders a medium transparent over a narrow spectral range within an absorption line...
, an effect in which a medium that is normally opaque at a particular wavelength is caused to become temporarily transparent
- Pentimento
A pentimento is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting...
, an alteration in a painting, often revealed with growing transparency in paints with age
- Transparency (photography)
In photography, a reversal film is a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base. The film is processed to produce transparencies, in contrast with negative and print...
, a still, positive image created on a transparent base using photochemical means
- Transparency (projection)
A transparency is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically cellulose acetate, onto which figures can be drawn. These are then placed on an overhead projector for display to an audience...
, a thin sheet of transparent material for use with an overhead projector
In
computing and mathematics:
- Transparency (computing)
Any change in a computing system, such as new feature or new component, is transparent if the system after change adheres to previous external interface as much as possible while changing its internal behaviour. The purpose is to shield from change all systems on the other end of the interface...
, user and engineering design considerations, including
- Location transparency
In computer networks location transparency describes names used to identify network resources independent of both the user's location and the resource location.A distributed system will need to employ a networked scheme for naming resources....
if the names used to identify network resources are independent of both the user's location and the resource location
- Network transparency
Network Transparency in its most general sense refers to the ability of a protocol to transmit data over the network in a manner which is transparent to those using the applications that are using the protocol....
if there is no difference between the centralized database and the distributed database
- Transparency (digital design), the property of a latch to show input changes immediately on output
- Transparency (data compression)
In data compression or psychoacoustics, transparency is the ideal result of lossy data compression. If a lossily compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input, then the compression can be declared to be transparent...
, the ideal result of lossy data compression
- Transparency (telecommunication)
In telecommunications, transparency can refer to:#The property of an entity that allows another entity to pass thorough it without altering either of the entities....
, the property by which a transmission system passes a signal through without changing its form or content
- Transparency (graphic)
Transparency is possible in a number of graphics file formats. The term transparency is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Of course, only part of a graphic should be fully transparent, or there...
, for overlay and translucency in PNG, GIF, and TIFF files
- Transparency (pseudo)
Pseudo-transparency is a term used for X Window System clients that simulate the appearance of translucency or transparency by manipulating the same pixmap that has been drawn on the root window, or by instructing the X Server that the Background Pixmap should be inherited from the window's...
, or background translucency in the X or X11 Window System
- Referential transparency in programming designates a deterministic function
- Security through transparency, a security engineering methodology which attempts to get as many people as possible reviewing code, with the hope that they will maintain or at least point out bugs in it, improving security over time.
In
humanities and business:
- Media transparency
Media transparency is the concept of determining how and why information is conveyed through various means.This is a specific case of the topic, Transparency . As used in the humanities, it implies openness and accountability...
, in the communications industry
- Radical transparency
Radical transparency is a management approach in which all decision making is carried out publicly.Draft documents, arguments for and against a proposal, the decisions about the decision making process itself, and final decisions are all publicly accessible and remain publicly archived.Exceptions...
in management
- Transparency (behavior), a metaphor implying visibility in contexts related to the behavior of individuals or groups
- Transparency (linguistic)
Linguistic transparency is a phrase which is used in multiple, overlapping subjects in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of language. It has both normative and descriptive senses.-Normative:...
, a term used in linguistics and the philosophy of language
- Transparency (market)
In economics, a market is transparent if much is known by many about:* What products, services or capital assets are available.* What price.* Where....
, a term in economics
- Transparency (philosophy)
In epistemology, transparency is a property of epistemic states defined as follows:An epistemic state E is weakly transparent to a subject S if and only if when S is in state E, S can know that S is in state E;...
, an adjective applied to a state in which the subject can be aware of being in that state
- Transparency (social)
Transparency is a general quality. It is implemented by a set of policies, practices and procedures that allow citizens to have accessibility, usability, informativeness, understandability, and auditability of information and process held by centers of authority...
, the social value of access to information held by centers of authority
- Transparency (trade)
Transparency is a World Trade Organization principle stipulating that a country’s policies and regulations affecting foreign trade should be clearly communicated to its trading partners...
, the formal principle of the WTO that a country’s policies and regulations affecting foreign trade should be clearly communicated to its trading partners.
- Transparency International
Transparency International is an international non-governmental organization addressing corruption . This includes, but is not limited to, political corruption. It is widely known for producing its annual Corruptions Perceptions Index , a comparative listing of corruption worldwide. The...
, an organization working for governance, corporate, banking and association transparency
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- Transparency (Guatemala)
Transparency is a political party in Guatemala.At the last legislative elections, 9 November 2003, the party won 1.1% of the popular vote but no seats....
, a political party in Guatemala (Transparencia)
In
entertainment
- Transparent (album)
Transparent is the first release by the band Coil. It was a collaboration with Zos Kia and credited to "Zos Kia/Coil".The cassette version was released in 1984 on Nekrophile Rekords with catalogue number NRC 05. The CD version was released in 1997 on the label "Threshold House" with catalogue...
, Coil album
- Transparent (film)
Transparent is a 2005 documentary film about the experiences of 19 female-to-male transgender parents as they are coming to terms with gender transitioning...
, 2005 documentary film