0 If a substance or object is transparent, you can see through it very clearly: --
1 clear and easy to understand or recognize: --
I think we should try to make the instructions more transparent.
3 (of a substance) allowing light through so that objects can be clearly seen through it: --
4 transparent business and financial activities are done in an open way without secrets, so that people can trust that they are fair and honest: --
open/efficient/fair and transparent Her appointment was based on an open and transparent selection process.
An OFT senior executive said he wanted the banks to make current accounts more transparent.
a transparent system/process/environment
Our aim is to create a transparent market that rewards genuine innovation and risk.
transparent about sth Companies need to be transparent about their goals and policies.
The charter aims to make the national health service a more transparent and open public corporation.
What prompts all this effort is that an account of behavior as transparently governed by self-interest leads to transparent difficulties.
Both developments are motivated by a perceived need to achieve communicatively transparent test results anchored in observable behaviors.
In reality, however, decision makers may deviate from this utilitarian perspective for very rational and transparent reasons.
However, to make a highly overdense plasma transparent by this mechanism requires enormous magnetic fields.
The irradiated targets are composed of either a thin layer of aluminium or of carbon, deposited on a transparent heat-insulating glass substrate.
Transparent metaphors exibit clearer conceptual similarities between the target and source domains than opaque metaphors.
When shown a chair apparently moving itself (pulled by transparent plastic wire) babies showed surprise and sometimes fear.
The most transparent example is provided by the assortment of comments pertaining to the use of a combinatorial auction.
