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 ...
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Background light
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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
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
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 us ...
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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, 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 source ...
, the natural radiation that is always present in a location
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Background (astronomy), 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
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Background process, 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, smar ...
Other uses
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Background (journalism)
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Cultural heritage
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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, th ...
, 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 gene ...
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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 incr ...
, a way of feeding livestock before selling them
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Figure and ground (disambiguation)
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Foreground and background (disambiguation) Foreground and background or background and foreground may refer to:
*Background, foreground, sideground and postground intellectual property, distinct forms of intellectual property assets
*Background subtraction, a technique in image processing a ...
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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
* Heredity, biological inheritance of physical ...
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