Clarté.
ETYM Cf. French transparence.
In photography, a picture on slide film. This captures the original in a positive image (direct reversal) and can be used for projection or printing on positive-to-positive print material, for example by the Cibachrome or Kodak R-type process.
Slide film is usually color but can be obtained in black and white.
1. Permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation; SYN. transparence.
2. The quality of being clear and transparent; SYN. transparence, transparentness.
The quality that defines how much light passes through an object’s pixels. If an object is 100 percent transparent, light passes through it completely and renders the object invisible; in other words, you can see through the object.