Look up transparency, transparant, transparence, transparent, or transparently in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Transparency, transparence or transparent most often refer to:

• Transparency (optics), transmitting light
• Many articles listed use "transparency" as a metaphor, meaning that everything is visible, nothing hidden.

They may also refer to:

Literal uses

• Transparency (photography), a transparent photograph
• Transparency (projection), for use with an overhead projector
• Electromagnetically induced transparency

Animals and plants

• Transparent goby, a fish species
• White Transparent, a cultivar of apple

Arts, entertainment, and media

Computing and mathematics

• Transparency (data compression), perceptually lossless
• Transparency (human–computer interaction), a change not affecting interface
• Transparency (telecommunication), transmitting signal unchanged
  • Network transparency
• Alpha compositing, creating apparent transparency
  • Image masks in computer graphics
  • Transparency (graphic) in image formats
  • Transparency (pseudo), in X or X11 Window System
• Location transparency, independence of location
• Order-independent transparency in 3D computer graphics
• Referential transparency
• Security through transparency, security where all except the key is known

Humanities and business

• Transparency (behavior), showing what is done
  • Open government#Transparency
• Transparency (linguistic)
• Transparency (market), everything known
• Transparency (science), where all is described
• Transparency (trade), clear foreign trade regulations
• Compensation transparency, pay fully disclosed
• Media transparency, open handling of news
• Radical transparency of previously confidential data

Organizations

• Transparency (Guatemala) (Transparencia), a political party
• Transparency International, anti-corruption organization

Other uses

• Transparency (wine), ability of a wine to portray all unique aspects of its flavor

See also

• Clarity (disambiguation)
• Visibility (disambiguation)