• scenery hung at back of stage
• (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"
• 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"

'Background' in other languages