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What does transparent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word transparent? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.
  2. (of a system or organization) Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption.
  3. Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
  4. (signal processing) Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
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The euro notes carry a watermark and security thread, plus a circular symbol, half of which is transparent.
Painted in gouache, watercolor and acrylic, its surface varies from matte to shiny and its colors from transparent to opaque.
Only a handful of artists have ever used transparent watercolors as their chosen medium.
This method resulted in transparent replicas of the adaxial and abaxial leaf surface.
Peters says emission trading deals have to be above-board and transparent, especially when it comes to price.
The structures in NEs are much smaller than visible wavelengths, so many NEs appear applicably transparent.

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