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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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  • Be you unseen, transparent, and the glory of the Lord shall shine through you CHRIST THE EXEMPLAR For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps.' —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
  • The matter forming the head and the nucleus is perfectly transparent, as stars have been seen through the matter which forms those parts. —  Aether and Gravitation
  • The surface of the tusks is always full of cracks, but under it there is a layer of ivory free of cracks, which again incloses a grained kernel of bone which at some places is semi-transparent, as if drenched with oil When the walrus ox gets very old, he swims about by himself as a solitary individual, but otherwise animals of the same age and sex keep together in large herds. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • When the paper is quite transparent, the oil in excess is removed by pressure between sheets of blotting paper, and the paper dried before the fire or spontaneously. —  Photographic Reproduction Processes
  • During the insolation—and it is very short—the chromic compound is reduced, the parts corresponding to the ground, that is, the transparent parts of the cliché, are discolored, while those under the design remain unaltered; the image being, therefore, faintly visible, and being formed of the chromic mixture, it is developed by the fumes of aniline in a blue black tone. —  Photographic Reproduction Processes
 

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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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