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transparent
/tɹænˈspɛɹənt/
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What does transparent mean?
adjective
- See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.
- Of a graphical image or animated GIF, having parts that allow the background to show through.
- Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption.
More meanings (5)
adjective
- Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
- Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
- Not noticeable because it happens automatically or in the background; invisible.
noun
- Something that is transparent.
- A transgender or transsexual parent.
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IPA pronunciation
/tɹænˈspɛɹənt/
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He began, straight off, in the most innocently artful, and transparent, and lubberly way, to lead up to the subject of agriculture.
It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder.
More book examples (3)
I had reason to fear that my sable face might prove altogether too transparent for the safe concealment of my hazardous enterprise.
This action, however, is only true in the seeming, as its long transparent needles, being invisible, are touched before they are seen.
On the 18th of October these clouds were so remarkably transparent, that they did not hide stars even of the fourth magnitude.