Background may refer to:
Performing arts and stagecraft
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Background actor
A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera, or ballet production who appears in a nonspeaking or nonsinging (silent) capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street ...
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Background artist
A background artist or sometimes called a background stylist or background painter is one who is involved in the process of animation who establishes the color, style, and mood of a scene drawn by an animation layout artist. The methods used can e ...
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Background light
A background light is used to illuminate the background area of a set. The background light will also provide separation between the subject and the background. Many lighting setups follow a three-point lighting or four-point lighting setup. Four ...
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Background music
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Background story
A backstory, background story, back-story, or background is a set of events invented for a plot, presented as preceding and leading up to that plot. It is a literary device of a narrative history all chronologically earlier than the narrative of p ...
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Background vocals
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''Background'' (play), a 1950 play by Warren Chetham-Strode
Recorded works
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''Background'' (1953 film), a British drama
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''Background'' (1973 film), a documentary
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''Background'' (TV series), a Canadian journalistic television series
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''Background'' (Lifetime album), 1992
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''Background'' (Bassi Maestro album), 2002
Science and engineering
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Background extinction rate
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Background independence Background independence is a condition in theoretical physics that requires the defining equations of a theory to be independent of the actual shape of the spacetime and the value of various fields within the spacetime. In particular this means that ...
, a condition in theoretical physics
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Background noise
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Background radiation
Background radiation is a measure of the level of ionizing radiation present in the environment at a particular location which is not due to deliberate introduction of radiation sources.
Background radiation originates from a variety of sources ...
, the natural radiation that is always present in a location
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Background (astronomy)
In astronomy, background commonly refers to the incoming light from an apparently empty part of the night sky.
Even if no visible astronomical objects are present in given part of the sky, there always is some low luminosity present, due mostly to ...
, small amounts of light coming from otherwise dark parts of the sky
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Cosmic background (disambiguation)
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Gravitational wave background
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X-ray background The observed X-ray background is thought to result from, at the "soft" end (below 0.3 keV), galactic X-ray emission, the "galactic" X-ray background, and, at the "hard" end (above 0.3keV), from a combination of many unresolved X-ray sources outside ...
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Background process
A background process is a computer process that runs ''behind the scenes'' (i.e., in the background) and without user intervention. Typical tasks for these processes include logging, system monitoring, scheduling, and user notification. The backgr ...
, software that is running but not being displayed
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String background
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Computer wallpaper
A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smart ...
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ancillary chunk in the PNG file format
Other uses
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Background (journalism)
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Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by soci ...
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Ethnic background
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Field (heraldry)
In heraldry, the background of the shield is called the '' field''. The field is usually composed of one or more tinctures (colours or metals) or furs. The field may be divided or may consist of a variegated pattern.
In rare modern cases, the ...
, background of a shield
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Natural heritage
Natural heritage refers to the sum total of the elements of biodiversity, including flora and fauna, ecosystems and geological structures. It forms part of our natural resources.
Definition
Heritage is that which is ''inherited'' from past gener ...
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French ''provenir'', 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art but is now used in similar senses i ...
See also
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Backgrounding, a way of feeding livestock before selling them
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Figure and ground (disambiguation)
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Foreground and background (disambiguation)
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Heritage (disambiguation)
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