Lucent vs Transparent - What's the difference?
lucent | transparent |
Emitting light; shining, luminous.
Translucent; clear, lucid.
*1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:
*:her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.
(of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.
* 1897, , chapter 19,
(of a system or organization) Open]], public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby [[reduce, reducing the chance of corruption.
Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
As adjectives the difference between lucent and transparent
is that lucent is emitting light; shining, luminous while transparent is see-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.lucent
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* lucentlytransparent
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(wikipedia transparent)Adjective
(en adjective)- The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped wastes there.
- "You make the glass invisible by putting it into a liquid of nearly the same refractive index; a transparent thing becomes invisible if it is put in any medium of almost the same refractive index."
- His reasons for the decision were transparent .