Transparency
[træn'spær(ə)nsɪ;trɑːn-;-'speə-] or [træns'pærənsi]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being clear and transparent.
(noun.) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.
(n.) That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Clearness, pellucidness, lucidity, limpidness, diaphaneity, TRANSLUCENCY.
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Definition
n. the quality of being transparent: clearness: that which is transparent: a picture on semi-transparent material seen by means of light shining through a positive picture on glass to be viewed by transmitted light: a humorous translation of the German title Durchlaucht—also Transpār′ence.—adj. Transpār′ent that may be distinctly seen through: clear.—adv. Transpār′ently.—n. Transpār′entness.
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Examples
- As the lid is closed, the picture becomes darkened, and by the gradual removal of the screen at the same time, it is changed into a transparency. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- And your painter's flesh is good--solidity, transparency, everything of that sort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then came his Transparency the Duke and Transparent family, with his great officers of state and household. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The lad's smile gave wondrous transparency to his physiognomy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The letters were painted on ground glass, lighted behind, so that when the screens were withdrawn the letters were seen in transparency. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- She gave some feeble signs of returning animation when they entered, and presently the faint transparency was presented in a sitting attitude. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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