transparence

1. 1.

   permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation

   Synonymstransparency

   Broaderphysical phenomenon
2. 2.

   the quality of being clear and transparent

   Synonymstransparencytransparentness

   Broaderclearness

   Narrowerpellucidness

Other forms of transparence

plural

transparences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about transparence

What does transparence mean?

transparence means "permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transparence?

transparence has 3 syllables: tran-spa-rence. The stress falls on "tran".

What is another word for transparence?

Close synonyms include transparency, transparency, transparentness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transparence a common word?

transparence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.