Transparency, transparence or transparent most often refer to: *

Transparency (optics) In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable light scattering by particles, scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale ...

, transmitting light (Note: Many of the articles listed below use "transparency" metaphorically, meaning that everything is visible, nothing is hidden.) Transparency may also refer to:

Literal uses

Transparency (photography) In photography, reversal film or slide film is a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base. Instead of negatives and prints, reversal film is processed to produce transparencies or diapositives (abbrevia ...

, a transparent photograph *

Transparency (projection) A transparency, also known variously as a viewfoil or foil (from the French word "feuille" or sheet), or viewgraph, is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically polyester (historically cellulose acetate), onto which figures can be ...

, for use with an overhead projector *

Electromagnetically induced transparency Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a coherent optical nonlinearity which renders a medium transparent within a narrow spectral range around an absorption line. Extreme dispersion is also created within this transparency "windo ...

Animals and plants

* Fish species: **

Asiatic glassfish The Asiatic glassfishes are a family, the Ambassidae, of freshwater and marine ray-finned fishes. Some species are known as perchlets. The family has also been called Chandidae, and some sources continue to use the name, but as Ambassidae was u ...

Transparent goby ''Aphia minuta'', the transparent goby, is a species of the goby native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean where it can be found from Trondheim, Norway to Morocco. It is also found in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It is a pel ...

* White Transparent, a cultivar of apple

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Groups and labels

* Transparency (record label), North America * Transparent (band), New York, US

Albums

* ''Transparency'', by the Herb Robertson Quintet, 1985 * ''Transparent'', by Coil, 1984 * ''Transparent'', by LaRue 2001 * ''Transparente'', by Mariza, 2005 * ''Transparence'', by

Markize Markize is a French-Russian Rock music, rock band founded in 2003 by the singer-songwriter Alina Dunaevskaya and drummer David Verbecq. History In September 2010, Tarja Turunen chose Markize to play with her on ''the most beautiful scenes of E ...

, 2007

Songs

* "Transparency", by PartyNextDoor from the 2016 album '' PartyNextDoor 3'' * "Transparent", by Suzi Quatro from album '' Main Attraction'' * "Transparent", by In Flames from the album ''

Reroute to Remain ''Reroute to Remain'' (subtitled: ''Fourteen Songs of Conscious Insanity'', and on reissue: ''Fourteen Songs of Conscious Madness'') is the sixth studio album by Swedish heavy metal band In Flames, released in September 2002. The album saw a m ...

'' * "Transparency", by

SoFaygo Andre Dontrel Burt Jr. (born October 3, 2001), better known by his stage name SoFaygo (formerly stylized as $ofaygo), is an American rapper and singer. His 2019 single, " Knock Knock", went viral on TikTok in late 2020 before it received platinum ...

from the album '' Pink Heartz''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Transparent'' (book), by Cris Beam * ''Transparent'' (film), a 2005 documentary * ''Transparent'' (TV series), US

Computing and mathematics

Transparency (data compression) In data compression and psychoacoustics, transparency is the result of lossy data compression accurate enough that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input, i.e. perceptually lossless. A transparency ...

, perceptually lossless *

Transparency (human–computer interaction) Any change in a computing system, such as a new feature or new component, is transparent if the system after change adheres to previous external interface as much as possible while changing its internal behaviour. The purpose is to shield from ...

, a change not affecting interface *

Transparency (telecommunication) In telecommunications, ''transparency'' can refer to: #The property of an entity that allows another entity to pass through it without altering either of the entities. #The property that allows a transmission system or channel to accept, at i ...

, transmitting signal unchanged **

Network transparency Network transparency refers to the ability of a protocol to transmit data over the network in a manner which is not observable to those using the applications that are using the protocol. In this way, users of a particular application may access ...

Alpha compositing In computer graphics, alpha compositing or alpha blending is the process of combining one image with a background to create the appearance of partial or full transparency. It is often useful to render picture elements (pixels) in separate pass ...

, creating apparent transparency **

Image mask In computer science, a mask or bitmask is data that is used for bitwise operations, particularly in a bit field. Using a mask, multiple bits in a byte, nibble, word, etc. can be set either on or off, or inverted from on to off (or vice versa) in ...

s in computer graphics **

Transparency (graphic) Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term " transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only ...

in image formats ** Transparency (pseudo), in X or X11 Window System *

Location transparency In computer networks, location transparency is the use of names to identify network resources, rather than their actual location. For example, files are accessed by a unique file name, but the actual data is stored in physical sectors scattered aro ...

, independence of location *

Order-independent transparency Order-independent transparency (OIT) is a class of techniques in rasterization, rasterisational computer graphics for rendering Transparency (graphic), transparency in a 3D scene, which do not require rendering geometry in sorted order for alpha co ...

in 3D computer graphics *

Referential transparency In analytic philosophy and computer science, referential transparency and referential opacity are properties of linguistic constructions, and by extension of languages. A linguistic construction is called ''referentially transparent'' when for an ...

, 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) As an ethic that spans science, engineering, transparency (market), business, and the humanities, transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed. Transparency implies openness, communication, an ...

, showing what is done ** Open government#Transparency *

Transparency (linguistic) Linguistic transparency is a phrase which is used in multiple, overlapping subjects in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of language. It has both normative and descriptive senses. Normative Normatively, the phrase may describe the effo ...

Transparency (market) In economics, a market is transparent if much is known by many about: What products and services or capital assets are supply (economics), available, market depth (quantity available), what price, and where. Transparency is important since it is o ...

, everything known *

Transparency (science) Open research is research that is openly accessible by others. Those who publish research in this way are often concerned with making research more transparent, more collaborative, more wide-reaching, and more efficient. Open research aims to mak ...

, where all is described *

Transparency (trade) Transparency is a World Trade Organization principle stipulating that a country’s policies and regulations affecting foreign trade should be clearly communicated to its trading partners. For example, out of recognition that sanitary and phytosan ...

, clear foreign trade regulations *

Compensation transparency Wage transparency, salary compensation, and compensation transparency generally, involves disclosure of employee compensation amounts, either among other employees in an organization, to owners, to government regulators, or to the public. Some jur ...

, pay fully disclosed *

Media transparency Media transparency, also referred to as transparent media or media opacity, is a concept that explores how and why information subsidies are being produced, distributed and handled by media professionals, including journalists, editors, public r ...

, open handling of news *

Radical transparency Radical transparency is a terminology used across fields of governance, politics, software design and business to describe actions and approaches that radically increase the openness of organizational process and data. Its usage was originally unde ...

of previously confidential data

Organizations

Transparency (Guatemala) The Front for Democracy (''Frente por la Democracia'' or El Frente) was a political party in Guatemala. In the legislative elections An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multip ...

(''Transparencia''), a political party *

Transparency International Transparency International e.V. (TI) is a German registered association founded in 1993 by former employees of the World Bank. Based in Berlin, its nonprofit and non-governmental purpose is to take action to combat global corruption with civil s ...

, anti-corruption organization

Other uses

* Transparency (wine), ability of a wine to portray all unique aspects of its flavor