transparency /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/ noun6 •The quality of being transparent. •Openness; accessibility to scrutiny. •Something transparent.John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless. — 1986 •A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it. •A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it. •Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input. formstransparencies