(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"; 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"; information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"; relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"; the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"; understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"
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