Transparent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Transparent \Trans*par"ent\, a. [F., from LL. transparens,
     -entis, p. pr. of transparere to be transparent; L. trans
     across, through + parere to appear. See {Appear}.]
     1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that
        bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light;
        diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent


        diamond; -- opposed to {opaque}. "Transparent elemental
        air." --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a
        transparent veil. --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Translucent; pellucid; clear; bright; limpid; lucid;
          diaphanous. See {Translucent}.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Trans*par"ent*ly}, adv. --
          {Trans*par"ent*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  transparent
       adj 1: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
              "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal
              clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the
              limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook";
              "transparent cristal" [syn: {crystalline}, {crystal
              clear}, {limpid}, {lucid}, {pellucid}]
       2: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous
          veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion
          down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings";
          "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: {diaphanous},
           {filmy}, {gauzy}, {gossamer}, {see-through}, {sheer}, {vaporous},
           {cobwebby}]
       3: free of deceit [syn: {guileless}]
       4: easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of
          subtlety); "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent
          lie"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "transparent":
     apparent, articulate, artless, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque,
     candid, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day,
     clear as glass, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent, connected,
     consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined,
     definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, distinguishable,
     downright, evident, explicit, express, filmy, flimsy, forthright,
     frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken,
     free-tongued, gauzy, genuine, glassy, gossamer, gossamery,
     guileless, heart-to-heart, ingenuous, light, light-pervious,
     lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid,
     luculent, luminous, manifest, naive, nonopaque, obvious,
     on the level, open, openhearted, outspoken, patent, peekaboo,
     pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain-spoken, recognizable, relucent,
     revealing, round, see-through, serene, sheer, simple, sincere,
     straight, straight-out, straightforward, thin, translucent,
     translucid, transpicuous, unambiguous, unchecked, unclouded,
     unconfused, unconstrained, understandable, undisguised,
     undissembling, unequivocal, unguarded, univocal, unmistakable,
     unobscured, unreserved, unrestrained, well-defined
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  transparent
       
          1.  Not visible, hidden; said of a system which
          functions in a manner not evident to the user.  For example,
          the {Domain Name System} transparently resolves a {fully
          qualified domain name} into an {Internet address} without the
          user being aware of it.
       
          Compare this to what {Donald Norman
          (http://www.atg.apple.com/Norman/)} calls "invisibility",
          which he illustrates from the user's point of view:
       
          "You use computers when you use many modern automobiles,
          microwave ovens, games, CD players and calculators.  You don't
          notice the computer because you think of yourself as doing the
          task, not as using the computer."  ["The Design of Everyday
          Things", New York, Doubleday, 1989, p. 185].
       
          2.  Fully defined, known, predictable; said of a
          sub-system in which matters generally subject to volition or
          stochastic state change have been chosen, measured, or
          determined by the environment.  Thus for transparent systems,
          output is a known function of the inputs, and users can both
          predict the behaviour and depend upon it.
       
          (1996-06-04)