Usually means: Clear, allowing light to pass.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word transparent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. transparent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. transparent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transparent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. transparent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. transparent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Transparent, transparent: Wordnik
  7. transparent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. transparent: Wiktionary
  9. transparent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. transparent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. transparent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. transparent: Dictionary.com
  13. transparent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. transparent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Transparent (Coil album), Transparent (LaRue album), Transparent (New York rock band), Transparent (TV series), Transparent (film), Transparent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Transparent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. transparent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. transparent: Rhymezone
  19. transparent, transparent, transparent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. transparent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. transparent: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. transparent: Free Dictionary
  23. transparent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. transparent: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transparent: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. transparent: Legal dictionary
  2. transparent: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. transparent: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Transparent: Game Dictionary
  3. transparent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. transparent: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Transparent: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)
  4. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transparent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. transparent: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See transparently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (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.
adjective:  (graphic design) Of a graphical image or animated GIF, having parts that allow the background to show through.
adjective:  (of a system or organization) Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption.
adjective:  Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
adjective:  (signal processing) Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
adjective:  (computing) Not noticeable because it happens automatically or in the background; invisible.

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