transparency

Etymology

From Medieval Latin trānspārentia.

noun

1. (uncountable) The quality of being transparent; transparence.
2. (uncountable) 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 present age of transparency. March 8 2023, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52
3. (countable, art) 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 Hill in honour of the King's Jubilee in 1810. 1810, Royal Collection Trust, Design for a transparency of George III
4. (countable, photography) A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it.
5. (countable) A transparent object.
6. (signal processing) Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.