Transparency

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

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)

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