Specifically in the acousto-optic effect, the strains are a result of the acoustic wave which has been excited within a transparent medium.

Light moves more slowly in any transparent medium, like water or air, than it does in a vacuum.

Language, they claim, should never be other than a transparent medium through which the meaning can be seen.

Light can be transmitted through any transparent medium.

The speed of light is reduced in any transparent medium, including water, plastic and diamond.

Replies: The speed of light does change when light passes through a transparent medium.

Yet he struggles valiantly to retain the vestiges of a lost world, to become a transparent medium for the dead.

It is a division that has been strongly associated with Enlightenment thinking about language, which attempted to make language a neutral, transparent medium.

Descartes hypothesized that light is pressure, transmitted instantaneously through a transparent medium.

The velocity of light is slowed when passing through a transparent medium, in proportion to the density.