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background

Definition of background (English)

noun

  1. a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
    • he is a lawyer with a sports background
    sumber: wordnet30
  2. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
    • he posed her against a background of rolling hills
    sumber: wordnet30
  3. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
    • the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
    sumber: wordnet30
  4. 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
    sumber: wordnet30
  5. relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
    • when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background
    sumber: wordnet30
  6. the state of the environment in which a situation exists
    • you can't do that in a university setting
    sumber: wordnet30
  7. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
    sumber: wordnet30
  8. scenery hung at back of stage
    sumber: wordnet30
  9. Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
    sumber: webster1913

verb

  1. understate the importance or quality of
    • he played down his royal ancestry
    sumber: wordnet30