| transparent | |
| 1. adj. (of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly. | |
| The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped waste there. | |
| 2. adj. (of a system or organization) Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption. | |
| 3. adj. Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand. | |
| His reasons for the decision were transparent. | |
| 4. adj. (signal processing) Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input. | |
