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transparency

noun
/tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/UK/tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/US/tɹænsˈpɛɹənsi/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from trānspārentia

Definitions

  1. The quality of being transparent.

  2. Openness

    Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.

    • Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

  3. A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

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

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

    2. Something transparent.

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

    3. Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the…

      Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for transparency. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA