Noun
1. a person's social heritage: previous experience or training;
"he is a lawyer with a sports background"2. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground;
"he posed her against a background of rolling hills"3. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem;
"the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"4. extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured;
"they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"5. relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation;
"when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"6. the state of the environment in which a situation exists;
"you can't do that in a university setting"7. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
8. scenery hung at back of stage