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Of course, if, as you say, something can be "totally transparent" (implying that it might otherwise have been less transparent than that) then "transparent" suffers the same problem as "opaque".
– Hot Licks
Commented Jan 29, 2015 at 20:38
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If I have a "blackness" scale indicating varying shades of grey - with black at one end and white at the other - does that mean that "black" somehow now means "grey" - no. "Opacity" or opaqueness is the same - it's a scale from opaque to transparent.
– James
Commented Jan 30, 2015 at 0:45

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