Transparency

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Transparency, transparence or transparent most often refer to:

• Transparency and translucency in optics, referring to the transmitting of light through materials

(Note: Many of the articles listed below use "transparency" metaphorically, meaning that everything is visible or that nothing is hidden.)

Transparency 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

• Fish species:
  • Asiatic glassfish
  • Transparent goby
• 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, replacing subexpressions without changing the value of the expression
• Security through transparency, security where all except the key is known

Humanities and business

• Transparency (behavior), making it easily seen what actions have been taken
  • Open government#Transparency
• Transparency (linguistic)
• Transparency (market), concept in economics where everything is known in a market
• Transparency (science), open accessibility of scientific research
• Transparency (trade), clear foreign trade regulations
• Compensation transparency, pay fully disclosed
• Epistemic transparency, a concept in philosophy
• Media transparency, open handling of news
• Radical transparency of previously confidential data
• Transparency of experience, a concept in philosophy of mind

Organizations

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

Other uses

• Transparency (wine), the ability of a wine to portray all unique aspects of its flavor
• Translucency (philosophy), the imperfect ability to discern other' dispositions

See also

• Clarity (disambiguation)
• Visibility (disambiguation)
• The Transparent Society

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