{
  "id": "transparent.visual",
  "term": "transparent",
  "sense": "visual",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "transparent",
  "domain": "material.physical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a material that can be seen through",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "material.physical",
      "visual.perceptual",
      "see.visual"
    ],
    "interaction": "material.physical allows visual.perceptual information to pass through and be detected by see.visual",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unobstructed line of sight",
      "visibility through medium",
      "perceptual transparency"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Window glass in the Empire State Building allows visibility from inside to outside during daylight.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The cornea of the human eye transmits light to the lens without scattering it significantly.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fused quartz cuvettes used in spectrophotometers transmit ultraviolet light for chemical analysis.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "material.physical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "property.attribute",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "clear.transparent",
    "glass.material"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "transparent"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing 'see.visual' as constitutive component since seeing through a material inherently involves the visual interaction of light and perception."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-transparent.visual"
}