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  1. adjective Capable of transmitting light so that objects or images can be seen as if there were no intervening material. See Synonyms at clear.
  2. adjective Permeable to electromagnetic radiation of specified frequencies, as to visible light or radio waves.
  3. adjective So fine in texture that it can be seen through; sheer. See Synonyms at airy.
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  • It is quite too transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. —  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • The air that was impounded within their walls when the walls went up thirty years ago is still miraculously transparent, after having been inhaled and exhaled many millions of times. —  WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
  • The azure glass gradually became transparent, and Belbe saw her hidden master peering down at her from outside the dome. —  Nemesis
  • Feeble light fell through the transparent, arching roof of the city, dirty yellow after its fight with the pollutants trapped beneath the permanent inversion layer that covered most of the world. —  The Man Who Used the Universe
  • Transparent and minimalist Adium dock icon for your Mac futura transparent is a free and animated Adium IM client dock icon created after its namesake typeface futura transparent with a minimalist, lowercase beautiful look - transparent. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin trānspārēns, trānspārent-, present participle of trānspārēre, to show through : Latin trāns-, trans- + Latin pārēre, to show.

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  1. from French transparent =Provencal transparent =Spanish transparente, trasparente =Portuguese transparente =Italian trasparente, from Middle Latin transparere, shine through: see transpare.
 

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/trænsˈpɛrənt/
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