noun “transparency”
singular transparency, plural transparencies or uncountable
- openness and honesty in communication or operations
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The government promised greater transparency in decision-making processes to rebuild public trust.
- the quality of being see-through
The transparency of the water made it possible to see the fish swimming below.
- a transparent picture or image viewed by shining light through it
The teacher used transparencies on the overhead projector to display diagrams during the lesson.
- (in signal processing) the condition where compressed data is indistinguishable from the original
The audio engineer was impressed by the transparency of the compressed music files; they sounded identical to the originals.