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transparency

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transparency

(1) See location transparency.

(2) No noticeably changes (see transparent).

(2) The quality of being able to see through a material. A transparent area of image takes on the colors of the underlying background. The terms "transparent" and "translucent" are used synonymously but are not the same (see transparency for the difference).

(3) A film-based photographic negative or positive. Light is beamed through the film for display, scanning or processing.

transparency
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
transparency [tranz′par·ən·sē]
(graphic arts)
An image fixed on a clear base by means of a photographic, printing, chemical, or other process, especially adaptable for viewing by transmitted light.
(optics)
The ability of a substance to transmit light of different wavelengths, sometimes measured in percent of radiation which penetrates a distance of 1 meter.


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We know the transparency of the sea and that its clearness is far beyond that of rock-water.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
The admirable purity and transparency of the atmosphere in this region, allowing objects to be seen, and the report of firearms to be heard, at an astonishing distance; and its extreme dryness, causing the wheels of wagons to fall in pieces, as instanced in former passages of this work, are proofs of the great altitude of the Rocky Mountain plains.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
These signals are usual among the Indians, to give warnings to each other, or to call home straggling hunters; and such is the transparency of the atmosphere in those elevated plains, that a slight column of smoke can be discerned from a great distance, particularly in the evenings.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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