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transparency

property of an object or substance to transmit light with minimal scattering
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transparency

Summary

transparency is an optical property[1]. transparency draws 218 Wikipedia views per month (optical_property category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • transparency's instance of is recorded as optical property[3].
  • transparency is a type of transmission[4].
  • transparency's Commons category is recorded as Transparency[5].
  • transparency's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Transparent materials[6].
  • transparency's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • transparency's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • transparency's different from is recorded as translucency[9].
  • transparency's does not have characteristic is recorded as scattering[10].

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Definition and Type

transparency's instance of is recorded as optical property[3]. transparency is a type of transmission[4].

Why It Matters

transparency draws 218 Wikipedia views per month (optical_property category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] transparency has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] transparency is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14d ago · Arlo Barnes · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → transmission
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q6151685]]"
  2. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Channel 3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295975, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  3. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i98144
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id → 151062662
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 12622, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  4. 19w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 11541052-n
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P8814]]: 11541052-n"
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