transparency

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: trans=par=en=cy

CIDE DICTIONARY

transparency, n. [Cf. F. transparence.].

•  The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it.  Fairholt.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

transparency, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the condition of being transparent.
2 Photog. a positive transparent photograph on glass or in a frame to be viewed using a slide projector etc.
3 a picture, inscription, etc., made visible by a light behind it.

Etymology

med.L transparentia (as TRANSPARENT)

THESAURUS

transparency

Celluloid, Lucite, Perspex, Photostat, Plexiglas, Telephoto, Wirephoto, Xerox, Xerox copy, aerial photograph, aquamarine, beryl, black-and-white photograph, blowup, blueprint, candid photograph, carnelian, cellophane, chalcedony, cheesecake, chiffon, chronophotograph, chrysolite, citrine, clarity, clear-cutness, clearness, coherence, color photograph, color print, connectedness, consistency, contact printing, crystal, crystallinity, cyanotype, definition, diamond, diaphane, diapositive, directness, distinctness, emerald, enlargement, explicitness, glossy, gossamer, heliochrome, heliograph, hologram, hyaline, lantern slide, limpidity, lucidity, matte, mica, microcopy, microprint, montage, moonstone, morganite, mug, mug shot, onionskin, pellucidity, perspicuity, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photocopy, photograph, photogravure, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, photostatic copy, picture, pinup, plain English, plain speech, plain style, plainness, portrait, positive, print, projection printing, quartz, semi-matte, sheers, shot, simplicity, slide, snap, snapshot, still, still photograph, straightforwardness, structure, telephotograph, tissue, tissue paper, transparent things, transpicuity, unadorned style, unambiguousness, unequivocalness, unmistakableness, veil, voile, water, window

ROGET THESAURUS

transparency

Transparency

N transparence, transparency, clarity, translucence, translucency, diaphaneity, lucidity, pellucidity, limpidity, fluorescence, transillumination, translumination, transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite, water, transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent, relucent, limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous, transpicuous, glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, vitreform.