transparency

1. 1.

   permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation

   Synonymstransparence

   Antonymsopacity

   Broaderphysical phenomenon
2. 2.

   the quality of being clear and transparent

   Synonymstransparencetransparentness

   Broaderclearness

   Narrowerpellucidness
3. 3.

   picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector

   Synonymsfoil

   Broaderpicture

   Narrowerslideviewgraph

Other forms of transparency

plural

transparencies·

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 transparency

What does transparency mean?

transparency means "permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transparency?

transparency has 4 syllables: tran-spar-en-cy. The stress falls on "spar". In IPA it is /tɹænˈspɛɹənsi/.

What is another word for transparency?

Close synonyms include transparence, transparence, transparentness, foil. 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.

What is the opposite of transparency?

The recorded antonyms are opacity.

Is transparency a common word?

transparency is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.