transparency

Noun

1. The quality of being transparent.

   Synonyms: transparence transparentness

2. Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.
   • And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this...
   • Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey...
3. A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it.
   • According to Bray (Life of Stothard, p. 50), the silversmiths Rundell and Bridge displayed a large transparency by Thomas Stothard, painted in thin oils on canvas and lit from behind, in front of their house on Ludgate...
   • It soon came: as they were on their way to a transparency of their majesties, not a little larger than life—with Bellona, in a very handsome helmet, on one side, and Peace, with a cornucopia and a full blown wreath of...
4. A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it.
5. Something transparent.
   • John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless. - 1986 April 12, H. W. Seng, “The Chunks-of-Life Approach Yields Thin Fiction”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
6. Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.