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trans·par·en·cy

(trăns-pâr′ən-sē, -păr′-)

n. pl. trans·par·en·cies

1. also trans·par·ence (-pâr′əns, -păr′-) The quality or state of being transparent.

2. A transparent object, especially a photographic slide that is viewed by light shining through it from behind or by projection.

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transparency

(trænsˈpærənsɪ; -ˈpɛər-)

n, pl -cies

1. Also called: transparence the state of being transparent

2. (Photography) Also called: slide a positive photograph on a transparent base, usually mounted in a frame or between glass plates. It can be viewed by means of a slide projector

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trans•par•en•cy

(trænsˈpɛər ən si, -ˈpær-)

n., pl. -cies.

1. Also, trans•par′ence. the quality or state of being transparent.

2. something transparent, esp. a picture or design on glass or some translucent substance, made visible by light shining through from behind.

3. a photographic print on a clear base for viewing by transmitted light.

transparency

An image fixed on a clear base by means of a photographic, printing, chemical or other process, especially adaptable for viewing by transmitted light. See also diapositive.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

transparency

(or slide) A photographic image on a transparent base.

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Noun	1.	transparency - permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation transparence physical phenomenon - a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy opacity - the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
	2.	transparency - the quality of being clear and transparent transparentness, transparence uncloudedness, clarity, clearness - the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes" pellucidness, limpidity, pellucidity - passing light without diffusion or distortion
	3.	transparency - picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector foil ikon, picture, icon, image - a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" lantern slide, slide - a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector viewgraph, overhead - a transparency for use with an overhead projector

transparency

noun

1. photograph, slide, exposure, photo, picture, image, print, plate, still The first colour photo was a transparency of a tartan ribbon.

2. clarity, translucency, translucence, clearness, limpidity, transparence, diaphaneity, filminess, diaphanousness, gauziness, limpidness, pellucidity, pellucidness, sheerness It is a condition that affects the transparency of the lenses.
clarity opacity, murkiness, cloudiness, unclearness

3. frankness, openness, candour, directness, forthrightness, straightforwardness openness and transparency in the government's decision-making
frankness ambiguity, vagueness

4. obviousness, explicitness, plainness, distinctness, unambiguousness, apparentness, patentness, perspicuousness the transparency of pricing with the euro
obviousness obscurity, vagueness, unclearness

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Translations

شَريحَةٌ مُصَوَّرةٌ شَفّافَهشَفافِيَّه

průhlednostdiapozitiv

diapositivgennemsigtighedlysbillede

Durchsichtigkeit Transparenz Dia

διαφάνεια

läpikuultavaläpinäkyväläpinäkyvyys

transparence diapositive

átlátszóságdiapozitívfólia

gagnsæiglæra

diapositiva trasparenza trasparente chiaro

透明性透明物体

gjennomsiktighet

transparência

транспарант

priehľadnosť

diadiapozitifsaydamlıkslayt

幻灯片透明度

transparency

[trænsˈpærənsɪ] N

1. [of object, material, substance] → transparencia f

2. [of statement] → claridad f

3. (Phot) (for overhead projector) → transparencia f; (= slide) → diapositiva f

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transparency

[trænsˈpærənsi] n

(= transparent quality) → transparence f

(= openness, honesty) (especially in government) → transparence f

(British) (= photographic slide) → diapositive f

transparency

→ Transparenz f, → Durchsichtigkeit f

(of lies, excuses etc) → Durchschaubarkeit f

(of system, institution) → Transparenz f

(Phot) → Dia(positiv) nt; colour (Brit) or color (US) transparency → Farbdia nt

(for overhead projector) → Folie f

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transparency

[trænsˈpær/ənsɪ] n → trasparenza (Phot) → diapositiva

transparent

(trӕnsˈpӕrənt) , (-ˈpeə-) adjective

able to be seen through. The box has a transparent lid.

transˈparently adverb

transˈparency (-ˈpӕ-) – plural transˈparencies – noun

1. the state of being transparent. the transparency of the water.

2. a photograph printed on transparent material, a slide. I took some transparencies of the cathedral.

transparency

n. transparencia; [slide] diapositiva.

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The room was most dear to her, and she would not have changed its furniture for the handsomest in the house, though what had been originally plain had suffered all the ill-usage of children; and its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded footstool of Julia's work, too ill done for the drawing-room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy and a moonlight lake in Cumberland, a collection of family profiles, thought unworthy of being anywhere else, over the mantelpiece, and by their side, and pinned against the wall, a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago from the Mediterranean by William, with H.M.S.

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Mark Cancilla has been named global platform director for coatings and Brent Wright has been appointed global platform director for transparencies. Cancilla began his PPG career at the company's Pittsburgh headquarters as a glass engineer, later joining the company's aerospace transparencies business and eventually being named global platform director for transparencies in 2010.

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GKN Aerospace, which last year acquired Birmingham-based Pilkington Aerospace to become the world's leading supplier of military aircraft transparencies, said the deal was the first time a single contract for the supply of an integrated military aircraft canopy system had been awarded.