background

What does background mean?

• verb

  understate the importance or quality of

• noun

  the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

• noun

  scenery hung at back of stage

• noun

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

• noun

  the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• noun

  information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

• noun

  extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

• noun

  a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

• noun

  relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

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