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# transparent

«transparent» in Mova's school dictionary: **Clear, so that you can see through it clearly: "Glass is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (transparent, more transparent, most transparent)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Clear, so that you can see through it clearly: "Glass is transparent." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#m1)

2) Honest and open, with nothing hidden: "a transparent decision". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#m2)

3) Easy to see through or notice: "a transparent lie". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on light, transparent materials let almost all light through: clear glass, clean water, cling film. In everyday life, people say a decision or rule is transparent when they can see how and why it was made. Phrases: transparent material, transparent plastic, a transparent excuse.

### examples

- Window glass is transparent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#x1)
- Put the leftovers in a transparent box so we can see them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#x2)
- Clean water is transparent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#x3)
- Which materials are transparent, translucent or opaque? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#x4)
- His excuse was so transparent that everyone knew he was lying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#x5)
- The club's rules are transparent and fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#x6)
- Shining glow-worms covered the ceiling, and sky-blue bats flapped their transparent wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/#x7)

### note

Opposite: "opaque" (no light gets through). In between: "translucent". Spelling: ends in "-ent". Science: transparent things still reflect a little light, which is why you can see a glass window. The noun is "transparency".

### In the corpora

- [You are Mova, a small transparent language model, an MMM.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/1/)
- [Being transparent means you can show why you chose an answer: what you noticed and which rule you used.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/8/)
- [You are Mova, a small transparent language model, an MMM.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/10/)
- [Being transparent means your decisions can be seen and checked: what you noticed and which rule you used.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/17/)
- [Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some through, and opaque ones block it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «transparent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transparent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.