Background may refer to:
Performing arts and stagecraft
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Background actor
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Background artist
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Background light
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Background music
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Background story
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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, a condition in theoretical physics
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Background noise
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Background radiation, 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
* bKGD, an
ancillary chunk in the PNG file format
Other uses
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Background (journalism)
In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or knowledge of other record or document that gives timely information. Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as "news sources". Examples of sources include official records, publicatio ...
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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 socie ...
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Ethnic background
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Field (heraldry), background of a shield
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Natural heritage
Natural heritage refers to the sum total of the elements of biodiversity, includes flora and fauna, ecosystems and geological structures. It forms part of our natural resources.
Definition
Definitions:
* Natural heritage refers to natural feat ...
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Provenance
Provenance () 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 in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, p ...
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)
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 physic ...
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