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Your use of the word transparent confused me a little. It seems you are using it in the sense that details that are being made transparent are being hidden from the user.

But if you make something transparent to the user, it could also mean that you are directly exposing that thing to the user. (Right? I could be wrong about this.)

Just confused me and thought it might be useful to you to know that. Not trying to be an asshole.

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I think in a technical context, it always has the meaning OP is talking about. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(human%E2%80%93co.... I've mostly seen research papers use transparency with this meaning.

No offense taken - re-reading what I wrote, you make a fair point. The wiki page luckysid linked calls this out:

> Confusingly, the term refers to overall invisibility of the component, it does not refer to visibility of component's internals

Indeed, perhaps "invisible" would have been a better word choice.

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