| background | scenery hung at back of stage |
|---|---|
| background | (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear |
| background | a person's social heritage: previous experience or training |
| background | information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem |
| background | the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground |
| background | relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation |
| background | extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured |
| background | the state of the environment in which a situation exists |
| background | understate the importance or quality of |
| background | information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem |
| background | the amplitude level of the undesired background noise |
| background | extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal |