background Meaning and Definition

1. n. scenery hung at back of stage

2. n. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

3. n. a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

4. n. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

5. n. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

6. n. relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

7. n. extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

8. n. the state of the environment in which a situation exists

9. v. understate the importance or quality of