Background

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Definitions:

Noun

background

Definition: a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"

background ground

Definition: the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"

background background knowledge

Definition: information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"

background background signal

Definition: extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured; "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"

background

Definition: relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"

setting background scope

Definition: the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting"

background desktop screen background

Definition: (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

backdrop background backcloth

Definition: scenery hung at back of stage

Definition: One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

Verb

background play down downplay

Definition: understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"

Definition: To put in a position that is not prominent.

Adjective

Definition: Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.