Background

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Performing arts and stagecraft

• Background actor
• Background artist
• Background light
• Background music
• Background story
• Background vocals
• Background (play), a 1950 play by Warren Chetham-Strode

Recorded works

• Background (1953 film), a British drama
• Background (1973 film), a documentary
• Background (TV series), a Canadian journalistic television series
• Background (Lifetime album), 1992
• Background (Bassi Maestro album), 2002

Science and engineering

• Background extinction rate
• Background independence, a condition in theoretical physics
• Background noise
• Background radiation, the natural radiation that is always present in a location
  • Background (astronomy), small amounts of light coming from otherwise dark parts of the sky
  • Cosmic background (disambiguation)
  • Gravitational wave background
  • X-ray background
• Background process, software that is running but not being displayed
• String background
• Computer wallpaper
• bKGD, an ancillary chunk in the PNG file format

Other uses

• Background (journalism)
• Cultural heritage
• Ethnic background
• Field (heraldry), background of a shield
• Natural heritage
• Provenance

See also

• Backgrounding, a way of feeding livestock before selling them
• Figure and ground (disambiguation)
• Foreground and background (disambiguation)
• Heritage (disambiguation)
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