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Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system. examples
countable and uncountable, plural backgrounds
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past. examples
A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. quotations examples
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close […] above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world — camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history. examples
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground). examples
(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows). examples
(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user. examples
(physics) Clipping of background radiation. examples
third-person singular simple present backgrounds, present participle backgrounding, simple past and past participle backgrounded
To put in a position that is not prominent. quotations examples
One aspect of the story that appears interesting is that the alleged rapist and victim are only referred to by name together in the same sentence once. In all the other sentences, one receives more focus, while the other is backgrounded.
2006, Paul Baker, Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis, page 163
(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on). examples
simple past and past participle of backgrind examples