Background may refer to:
Performing arts and stagecraft
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Background actor
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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. Fo ...
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Background music
Background music (British English: piped music) is a mode of musical performance in which the music is not intended to be a primary focus of potential listeners, but its content, character, and volume level are deliberately chosen to affect behav ...
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Background story
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Background vocals
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...
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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 Background extinction rate, also known as the normal extinction rate, refers to the standard rate of extinction in Earth's geological and biological history before humans became a primary contributor to extinctions. This is primarily the pre-huma ...
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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 t ...
, a condition in theoretical physics
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Background noise
Background noise or ambient noise is any sound other than the sound being monitored (primary sound). Background noise is a form of noise pollution or interference. Background noise is an important concept in setting noise levels.
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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) Cosmic background may refer to:
* Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)
* Cosmic neutrino background (CνB)
* Cosmic gravitational wave background (GWB)
* Cosmic infrared background (CIB)
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Gravitational wave background
The gravitational wave background (also GWB and stochastic background) is a random gravitational-wave signal potentially detectable by gravitational wave detection experiments. Since the background is supposed to be statistically random, it has ...
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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
In theoretical physics, a string background refers to the set of classical values of quantum fields in spacetime that correspond to classical solutions of string theory. Such a background is associated with geometry that solves Einstein's field equ ...
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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 ...
Other uses
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Background (journalism)
In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or knowledge other record or document that gives timely information. Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as "news sources". Examples of sources include but are not limited to officia ...
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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
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...
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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 ...
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Backgrounding
Backgrounding is an intermediate stage sometimes used in cattle production which begins after weaning and ends upon placement in a feedlot. Background feeding relies more heavily on forage (e.g., pasture, hay) in combination with grains to increa ...
, a way of feeding livestock before selling them
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Figure and ground (disambiguation) Figure and ground or Figure ground may refer to:
* Figure and ground (media), a concept developed by media theorist Marshall McLuhan
* Figure–ground (perception), referring to humans' ability to separate foreground from background in visual images ...
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Foreground and background (disambiguation)
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Heritage (disambiguation)
Heritage may refer to:
History and society
* A heritage asset is a preexisting thing of value today
** Cultural heritage is created by humans
** Natural heritage is not
* Heritage language
Biology
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