background : Idioms & Phrases
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background knowledge
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noun information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
background.
- the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
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background level
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noun the amplitude level of the undesired background noise
noise level.
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background noise
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noun extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal
ground noise.
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background processing
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noun the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system
backgrounding.
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background radiation
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noun radiation coming from sources other than those being observed
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background signal
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noun extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
background.
- they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals
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cosmic background radiation
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noun (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
CMB; cosmic background radiation; CBR; cosmic microwave background; CMBR.
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cosmic microwave background
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noun (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
CMB; cosmic background radiation; CBR; cosmic microwave background; CMBR.
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cosmic microwave background radiation
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noun (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
CMB; cosmic background radiation; CBR; cosmic microwave background; CMBR.
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screen background
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noun (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
background; desktop.