TRANSPARENCY
Dictionary entry overview: What does transparency mean?
• TRANSPARENCY (noun)
The noun TRANSPARENCY has 3 senses:
1. permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation
2. the quality of being clear and transparent
3. picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
Familiarity information: TRANSPARENCY used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• TRANSPARENCY (noun)
Meaning:
Permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
transparence; transparency
Hypernyms ("transparency" is a kind of...):
physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy)
Antonym:
opacity (the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation)
Meaning:
The quality of being clear and transparent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
transparentness; transparence; transparency
Hypernyms ("transparency" is a kind of...):
clarity; clearness; uncloudedness (the quality of clear water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transparency"):
limpidity; pellucidity; pellucidness (passing light without diffusion or distortion)
Meaning:
Picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
transparency; foil
Hypernyms ("transparency" is a kind of...):
icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transparency"):
lantern slide; slide (a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector)
overhead; viewgraph (a transparency for use with an overhead projector)
