Transparency
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The root meaning of Transparency is a quality of certain materials which means that one can see through them. See Transparency (optics).
Transparency can also mean:
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 markets
- Transparency (humanities), a metaphor implying visibility in politics
- Transparency (linguistic), a term used in linguistics and the philosophy of language
- Transparency (epistemology), 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 (science), in science
- Transparency (telecommunication), US Federal and military definition standards
- Transparency International, an organization working on governance, corporate, banking and association transpararency
- Transparency (Guatemala), a political party in Guatemala (Transparencia)
Material
- Electromagnetically induced transparency is transparency of light that is normally opaque to a particular atomic medium
- 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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