[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

transparent \transpar"ent\, a. f., from ll. transparens,
   -entis, p. pr. of transparere to be transparent; l. trans
   across, through + parere to appear. see appear.
   1. 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. "transparent elemental
      air." --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a
      transparent veil. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   syn: translucent; pellucid; clear; bright; limpid; lucid;
        diaphanous. see translucent.
        1913 webster -- transpar"ently, adv. --
        transpar"entness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
appear opaque translucent transpar"ently transpar"entness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

transparent
     adj 1: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
            "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal
            clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the
            limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook";
            "transparent cristal" syn: crystalline, crystal
            clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid
     2: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous
        veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion
        down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings";
        "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" syn: diaphanous,
         filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous,
         cobwebby
     3: free of deceit syn: guileless
     4: easily understood or seen through because of a lack of
        subtlety; "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent
        lie"
see also:
crystalline crystal clear limpid lucid pellucid diaphanous 
filmy gauzy gossamer see-through sheer 
vaporous cobwebby guileless 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

106 moby thesaurus words for "transparent":
   apparent, articulate, artless, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque,
   candid, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day,
   clear as glass, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent, connected,
   consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined,
   definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, distinguishable,
   downright, evident, explicit, express, filmy, flimsy, forthright,
   frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken,
   free-tongued, gauzy, genuine, glassy, gossamer, gossamery,
   guileless, heart-to-heart, ingenuous, light, light-pervious,
   lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid,
   luculent, luminous, manifest, naive, nonopaque, obvious,
   on the level, open, openhearted, outspoken, patent, peekaboo,
   pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain-spoken, recognizable, relucent,
   revealing, round, see-through, serene, sheer, simple, sincere,
   straight, straight-out, straightforward, thin, translucent,
   translucid, transpicuous, unambiguous, unchecked, unclouded,
   unconfused, unconstrained, understandable, undisguised,
   undissembling, unequivocal, unguarded, univocal, unmistakable,
   unobscured, unreserved, unrestrained, well-defined

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

transparent
     
        1.  not visible, hidden; said of a system which
        functions in a manner not evident to the user.  for example,
        the domain name system transparently resolves a fully
        qualified domain name into an internet address without the
        user being aware of it.
     
        compare this to what donald norman
        http://www.atg.apple.com/norman/ calls "invisibility",
        which he illustrates from the user's point of view:
     
        "you use computers when you use many modern automobiles,
        microwave ovens, games, cd players and calculators.  you don't
        notice the computer because you think of yourself as doing the
        task, not as using the computer."  "the design of everyday
        things", new york, doubleday, 1989, p. 185.
     
        2.  fully defined, known, predictable; said of a
        sub-system in which matters generally subject to volition or
        stochastic state change have been chosen, measured, or
        determined by the environment.  thus for transparent systems,
        output is a known function of the inputs, and users can both
        predict the behaviour and depend upon it.
     
        1996-06-04
     
     
see also:
domain name system fully qualified domain name internet address lt;donald normangt; 

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