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background

English

🔊 (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
🔊 a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
“he is a lawyer with a sports background”
🔊 information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
“the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident”
🔊 the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
“he posed her against a background of rolling hills”
🔊 relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
“when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background”
🔊 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”
🔊 scenery hung at back of stage
🔊 the state of the environment in which a situation exists
“you can't do that in a university setting”
🔊 understate the importance or quality of
“he played down his royal ancestry”