Editing Background

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'''Background''' may refer to:
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== Performing arts and stagecraft ==
* [[Background actor]]
* [[Background artist]]
* [[Background light]]
* [[Background music]]
* [[Background story]]
* [[Background vocals]]
* [[Background (play)|''Background'' (play)]], a 1950 play by Warren Chetham-Strode

== Recorded works ==
* [[Background (1953 film)|''Background'' (1953 film)]], a British drama
* [[Background (1973 film)|''Background'' (1973 film)]], a documentary
* [[Background (TV series)|''Background'' (TV series)]], a Canadian journalistic television series
* [[Background (Lifetime album)|''Background'' (Lifetime album)]], 1992
* [[Background (Bassi Maestro album)|''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 [[PNG#Ancillary chunks|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)]]
* {{look from}}
* {{in title}}

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