Look up: background

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   Background
   Originated on the subways out of neccessity. Backgrounds were used to make the piece stand out from all the tags and assorted scribbling on a subway car that make the piece hard to discern; the color or design painted behind the piece to make it stand out from the wall or train.
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   Background
   The spaces, quiet zones, and area surrounding a printed symbol.
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   Background
   The term 'Background' can be applied to either natural 'Background Radiation', or anywhere where a measurement of Ionising Radiation is required. In analytical Contamination and Radiation measurements it is usual to subtract the background count from the source counts of interest.
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   background
   [n] - extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured 2. [n] - relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation 3. [n] - the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground 4. [n] - information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem 5. [n] - a person`s social heritage: previous experience or training 6. [n] - (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear 7. [v] - understate the importance or quality of
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   Background
   The colours or images used as the background of a Web page.
   Found on http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/support/gl
   
   
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   Background
   Parts of a page or image that do not include text, lines or other information.
   Found on http://www.doconsite.co.uk/directorypage
   
   
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   Background
   The spaces, quiet zones, and areas surrounding a printed symbol
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   Background
   The environment against which an indication must be evaluated.
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   background
   1. (operating system) A task running in the background (a background task) is detached from the terminal where it was started (and often running at a lower priority); opposite of foreground. This means that the task's input and output must be from/to files (or other processes). Nowadays this term is primarily associated with Unix, but it appears t...
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    background
    the controllable brightness of the receiver screen in the absence of the part of the television signal which conveys the picture information Category: Physics • the automatic execution of lower priority computer programs which are temporarily suspended when higher priority foreground programs are active Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the ...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
    
    
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    Background
    Areas shown behind the main subject in a picture. The part of the scene the appears behind the principal subject of the picture. The sharpness of the background can be influenced by apertures and shuttle set. In the flash mode, bulb setting usually is set for absorbing more ambience light (background information), so the end result of the exposure ...
    Found on http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/photographic%
    
    
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    background
    i. The area behind and outside the active window, including the desktop and any other application windows or icons. See also foreground. ii. In presentations it is the main colour and design of the slide before text or graphics are added.
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    Background
    Back'ground` noun [ Back , adjective + ground .] 1. Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground , or the ground in front . 2. (Paint.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. » The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and backgro ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/3
    
    
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    background
    noun a person`s social heritage: previous experience or training; `he is a lawyer with a sports background`
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    background
    background signal noun 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`
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    background
    ground noun the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; `he posed her against a background of rolling hills`
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    background
    play down verb understate the importance or quality of; `he played down his royal ancestry`
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    background
    screen background noun (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
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    background
    noun information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; `the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident`
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    Background
    The term `background` may refer to: In `art`: *Background (art), the part of a scene that appears to be farthest from the viewer *Background lighting, a film technique In `computing`: *Background (computer software), 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 In `philosophy of science`: * Operational definition, d...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background
    
    
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    Background
    • (n.) Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front. • (n.) A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight. • (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. • (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
    
    
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    Background
    Whatever devices are used to make a measurement in an experiment, the measurement is a superposition of events from the target and events from all other sources (background). The background therefore sets a lower limit on the detection of small signals. More generally, background is any unwanted signal.
    Found on http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/operations/acc
    
    
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    Background
    This is a term with a broad range of meanings, depending upon the context. In production, it has the same connotation as 'atmosphere', meaning extras who are staged to supply detail in the form of normal human traffic in a scene. In sound, it can mean the same as 'ambience' or it may refer to relative volume.
    Found on http://www.filmland.com/glossary/Diction
    
    
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    Background
    The area of a painting farthest from the viewer. In a landscape this would include the sky and horizon. In a still life or portrait it could be a wall or room interior.
    Found on http://www.watercolorpainting.com/glossa
    
    
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    Background
    Whatever devices are used to make a measurement in an experiment, the measurement is a superposition of events from the target and events from all other sources (background). The background therefore sets a lower limit on the detection of small signals. More generally, background is any unwanted signal.
    Found on http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/operations/acc