Background
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Background may refer to:
[edit] Art
- Background actor
- Background artist
- Background lighting, a film technique
- Background story
[edit] Film
- Background (1953 film), a British drama
- Background (1973 film), a documentary
[edit] Music
- Background (album), 1992 album by Lifetime
- Background music
- Background vocals
[edit] Computing
- Background process, software that is running but not being displayed
- Background, or desktop picture, is the image or colour displayed on a website or computer desktop behind the visible content
- background, in HTML, a <body> element attribute that sets a background texture
[edit] Physics and science
- Background (astronomy), small amounts of light coming from otherwise dark parts of the sky
- Background extinction rate, in geology
- Background independence, a condition in theoretical physics
- Background noise
- Background radiation, the natural radiation that is always present in a location
- Cosmic microwave background radiation, a natural constant radiation emanating throughout the universe
- Gravitational wave background
- Operational definition, in philosophy of science, distinguishing an object from its background of observation, or identifying what is and what is not part of it
- String background, in theoretical physics
- X-ray background
[edit] Other
- Background (journalism), in journalism, between a news source and a reporter on the privacy of a discussion
- Background art, or prior art, in patent law
- Background check
- Backgrounding, a way of feeding livestock before selling them
- Field (heraldry), background of a shield
[edit] See also
- All pages beginning with "Background"
- All pages with titles containing "Background"
- Cosmic background (disambiguation)
- Ethnic background
- Heritage (disambiguation)
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