Definition of transparent

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Transparent (a.) 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..

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Tourmaline :: Tourmaline (n.) A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels..
Snow :: Snow (n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms..
Vitrella :: Vitrella (n.) One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.
Glazing :: Glazing (n.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect..
Transparence :: Transparence (n.) The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.
Window :: Window (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure..
Phono :: Phono (n.) A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearly transparent wings.
Clarification :: Clarification (n.) The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine..
Semipellucidity :: Semipellucidity (n.) The qualiti or state of being imperfectly transparent.
Nitre :: Nitre (n.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.
Table :: Table (n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane..
Mastic :: Mastic (n.) A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes..
Diaphaned :: Diaphaned (a.) Transparent or translucent.
Prism :: Prism (n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc..
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
Intine :: Intine (n.) A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen..
Vitelline :: Vitelline (a.) Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus..
Pollucite :: Pollucite (n.) A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and caesia. Called also pollux..
Pellucid :: Pellucid (a.) Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
Semiopaque :: Semiopaque (a.) Half opaque; only half transparent.
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