Transparency
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Transparency may refer to:
Literal uses:
In computing and mathematics:
In science, engineering, humanities, government, and business:
In entertainment:
- Transparency and translucencyTransparency and translucencyIn the field of optics, transparency is the physical property of allowing light to pass through a material; translucency only allows light to pass through diffusely. The opposite property is opacity...
, the physical property of allowing the transmission of light through a material
Literal uses:
- Electromagnetically induced transparencyElectromagnetically induced transparencyElectromagnetically induced transparency is a coherent optical nonlinearity which renders a medium transparent over a narrow spectral range within an absorption line...
, an effect in which a medium that is normally opaque at a particular wavelength is caused to become temporarily transparent - PentimentoPentimentoA pentimento is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting...
, an alteration in a painting, often revealed with growing transparency in paints with age - Transparency (photography), a still, positive image created on a transparent base using photochemical means
- Transparency (projection)Transparency (projection)A transparency, also known in industrial settings as a "viewfoil" or "foil", is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically cellulose acetate, onto which figures can be drawn. These are then placed on an overhead projector for display to an audience...
, a thin sheet of transparent material for use with an overhead projector
In computing and mathematics:
- Transparency (human-computer interaction), user and engineering design considerations, including
- Location transparencyLocation transparencyIn computer networks location transparency describes names used to identify network resources independent of both the user's location and the resource location.A distributed system will need to employ a networked scheme for naming resources....
if the names used to identify network resources are independent of both the user's location and the resource location - Network transparencyNetwork transparencyNetwork transparency in its most general sense refers to the ability of a protocol to transmit data over the network in a manner which is transparent to those using the applications that are using the protocol....
if there is no difference between the centralized database and the distributed database
- Location transparency
- Transparency (digital design), the property of a latch to show input changes immediately on output
- Transparency (data compression)Transparency (data compression)In data compression or psychoacoustics, transparency is the ideal result of lossy data compression. If a lossy compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input, then the compression can be declared to be transparent...
, the ideal result of lossy data compression - Transparency (telecommunication)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 by which a transmission system passes a signal through without changing its form or content - Transparency (graphic)Transparency (graphic)Transparency is possible in a number of graphics 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. Of course, only part of a graphic should be fully transparent, or there...
, for overlay and translucency in PNG, GIF, and TIFF files - Transparency (pseudo)Transparency (pseudo)Pseudo-transparency is a term used for X Window System clients that simulate the appearance of translucency or transparency by manipulating the same pixmap that has been drawn on the root window, or by instructing the X Server that the Background Pixmap should be inherited from the window's...
, or background translucency in the X or X11 Window System - Referential transparency in programming designates a deterministic function
- Security through transparency, a security engineering methodology which attempts to get as many people as possible reviewing code, with the hope that they will maintain or at least point out bugs in it, improving security over time.
In science, engineering, humanities, government, and business:
- Media transparencyMedia transparencyMedia transparency is the concept of determining how and why information is conveyed through various means.As used in the humanities,the topic of media transparency implies openness and accountability...
, in the communications industry - Government transparency, in government
- Radical transparencyRadical transparencyRadical transparency is a management approach in which all decision making is carried out publicly. The term was used by Daniel Goleman in his book...
in management - Corporate transparencyCorporate transparencyCorporate transparency is set of information, privacy, and business policies to improve corporate decisionmaking and operations openness to employees, stakeholders, shareholders and the general public. Standard & Poor's has included a definition of corporate transparency in its aimed at analysis...
in business operations - Transparency (behavior), a metaphor implying visibility in contexts related to the behavior of individuals or groups
- Transparency (behavior), performing in such a way that it is easy for the agent or others to see what's wrong, e.g., the standard way to make change at a point of sale
- Transparency (general), providing enough information that the decision makers can anticipate the adverse effects of potential decisions.
- Transparency (general), providing enough information that the decision makers can see the legal and regulatory violations of potential decisions.
- Transparency (linguistic)Transparency (linguistic)Linguistic transparency is a phrase which is used in multiple, overlapping subjects in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of language...
, a term used in linguistics and the philosophy of language - Transparency (market)Transparency (market)In economics, a market is transparent if much is known by many about:* What products, services or capital assets are available.* What price.* Where....
, a term in economics - Transparency (philosophy)Transparency (philosophy)In epistemology, transparency is a property of epistemic states defined as follows:An epistemic state E is weakly transparent to a subject S if and only if when S is in state E, S can know that S is in state E;...
, an adjective applied to a state in which the subject can be aware of being in that state - Transparency (social)Transparency (social)Transparency is a general quality. It is implemented by a set of policies, practices and procedures that allow citizens to have accessibility, usability, utility, understandability, informativeness and auditability of information and process held by centers of authority...
, the social value of access to information held by centers of authority - Transparency (trade)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...
, the formal principle of the WTO that a country’s policies and regulations affecting foreign trade should be clearly communicated to its trading partners.
- Transparency InternationalTransparency InternationalTransparency International is a non-governmental organization that monitors and publicizes corporate and political corruption in international development. It publishes an annual Corruption Perceptions Index, a comparative listing of corruption worldwide...
, an organization working for governance, corporate, banking and association transparency - Transparency (Guatemala)Transparency (Guatemala)Transparency is a political party in Guatemala.At the last legislative elections, 9 November 2003, the party won 1.1% of the popular vote but no seats....
, a political party in Guatemala (Transparencia)
In entertainment:
- Transparent (album)Transparent (album)Transparent is the first release by the band Coil. It was a collaboration with Zos Kia and credited to "Zos Kia/Coil".The cassette version was released in 1984 on Nekrophile Rekords with catalogue number NRC 05. The CD version was released in 1997 on the label "Threshold House" with catalogue...
, Coil album - Transparent (film)Transparent (film)Transparent is a 2005 documentary film about the experiences of 19 female-to-male transgender parents as they are coming to terms with gender transitioning...
, 2005 documentary film - Transparency (2010 film)Transparency (2010 film)-Cast:*Lou Diamond Phillips as David*Estella Warren as Danielle*Deborah Kara Unger as Reg*Aaron Pearl as Sam*Jordana Largy as Billie*Kendall Cross as Dale*Michael Kopsa as Vika*Dariya Parakhnevych as Pavel*Vitaly Kravchenko as Alex*Emma Lahana as Lubitsch...