• Czech: průhledný
• Danish: transparent, gennemsigtig, klar
• Finnish: läpinäkyvä
• German: durchsichtig, transparent
• Hebrew: שקוף
• Indonesian: tembus pandang, bening
• Japanese: 透明
• Korean: 들여다보이다 (deul'yeodaboida) literally, " to be through-seen"
• Latvian: caurspīdīgs , caurspīdīga
• Norwegian: gjennomsiktig, transparent
• Russian: прозрачный
• Slovene: prozoren , prozorna , prozorno
• Swedish: transparent, genomskinlig

• Danish: gennemskuelig
• Finnish: läpinäkyvä
• German: transparent
• Hebrew: שקוף
• Japanese: 透明, 可視化
• Norwegian: gjennomsynlig, gjennomskuelig
• Russian: прозрачный
• Slovene: transparenten , transparentna , transparentno

• ttbc Albanian: tejdukshëm
• ttbc Arabic: (sháffaf), (háffaf)
• ttbc Azerbaijani: şəffaf
• ttbc Bosnian: providan
• ttbc Bulgarian: прозрачен (prozračen)
• ttbc Catalan: transparent
• ttbc Chinese: 透光 (tòu guāng)
• ttbc Croatian: providan
• ttbc Czech: zřejmý (3), zřetelný
• ttbc Dutch: transparant, doorzichtig
• ttbc Esperanto: malkaŝema
• ttbc Estonian: läbipaistev
• ttbc French: transparent
• ttbc Georgian: გამჭვირვალე (gamčvirvale)
• ttbc Greek: διαφανής (diaphanēs)
• ttbc Gujarati: પારદર્શક (pārdaršak)
• ttbc Hindi: निर्मल (nirmala), स्वच्छ (svaćča), पारदर्शी (pārdaršī), प्रकाशबेदा (prakāšābedā)
• ttbc Hungarian: nyílt
• ttbc Indonesian: transparan
• ttbc Irish: trédhearcach
• ttbc Italian: trasparente
• ttbc Korean: 투명한 (tumyeonghan)
• ttbc Lithuanian: skaidrus
• ttbc Mongolian: тунгалаг (tungalag)
• ttbc Persian:
• ttbc Polish: przezroczysty
• ttbc Portuguese: transparente
• ttbc Romanian: transparent
• ttbc Serbian:

  Cyrillic: провидан

  Roman: providan, prozirno, progledno

• ttbc Slovak: čistý
• ttbc Spanish: transparente
• ttbc Swahili: anga
• ttbc Tagalog: nanganganinag
• ttbc Telugu: పారదర్శకమైన (paaradarSakamaina)
• ttbc Thai: ( têe mong pàan dâai ngâai)
• ttbc Turkish: şeffaf
• ttbc Ukrainian: прозорий (prozóryj)
• ttbc Uyghur: süzük
• ttbc Vietnamese: trong suốt
• ttbc Welsh: tryloyw

Danish

Adjective

transparent

1. transparent

Noun

transparent

1. banner
2. transparency (a photographic slide)

French

Etymology

From transparens.

Pronunciation

• /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɑ̃/

Adjective

1. transparent

German

Adjective

transparent

1. transparent

Norwegian

Adjective

1. transparent (quality of a material)

Synonyms

• gjennomsiktig

Noun

or,

1. banner

Synonyms

• banner

Polish

Pronunciation

/tranˈsparɛnt/

Noun

transparent (plural transparenty, genitive sg transparentu, locative sg transparencie)

1. banner

Transparency (optics) is the physical property of allowing the transmission of light through a material. It is the noun form of the word transparent (for example, glass is usually transparent).

Literal uses:

• Electromagnetically induced transparency is an effect in which a medium that is normally opaque at a particular wavelength is caused to become temporarily transparent
• Pentimento is an alteration in a painting, often revealed with growing transparency in paints with age
• Transparency (photography) is a still, positive image created on a transparent base using photochemical means
• Transparency (projection), a thin sheet of transparent material for use with an overhead projector

Metaphorical meanings can amount to clear visibility, but also the opposite, invisibility (in particular of irrelevant details).

Transparency may also refer to:

In computing and mathematics:

• Transparency (computing), user and engineering design considerations, including
  • Location transparency if the names used to identify network resources are independent of both the user's location and the resource location
  • Network transparency if there is no difference between the centralized database and the distributed database
• Transparency (data compression), the ideal result of lossy data compression
• Transparency (telecommunication), the property by which a transmission system passes a signal through without changing its form or content
• Transparency (graphic), for overlay and translucency in PNG, GIF, and TIFF files
• Transparency (pseudo), or background translucency in the X or X11 Window System
• Referential transparency in programming designates a deterministic function

In humanities and business:

• Budget Transparency, availability of information on the budgetary process
• Media transparency, in the communications industry
• Radical transparency in management
• Transparency (humanities), a metaphor implying visibility in politics
• Transparency (linguistic), a term used in linguistics and the philosophy of language
• Transparency (market), a term in economics
• Transparency (philosophy), an adjective applied to a state in which the subject can be aware of being in that state
• Transparency International, an organization working for governance, corporate, banking and association transparency
• Transparency (Guatemala), a political party in Guatemala (Transparencia)
• Transparent (album)
• Transparent (film) (the movie)

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