transparency

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.

   And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.

2. 2
   noun

   A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it.

   According to Bray (Life of Stothard, p. 50), the silversmiths Rundell and Bridge displayed a large transparency by Thomas Stothard, painted in thin oils on canvas and lit from behind, in front of their house on Ludgate Hill in honour of the King's Jubilee in 1810.

3. 3
   noun

   Something transparent.

   John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless.

4. 4
   noun

   picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base

5. 5
   noun

   the quality of being clear and transparent

6. 6
   noun

   permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation

7. 7
   noun

   The quality of being transparent.

8. 8
   noun

   A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārentia, equivalent to transparent + -cy.