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Definition of Backgrounding
1. Noun. The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system.
Definition of Backgrounding
1. background [v] - See also: background
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backgrounding
Literary usage of Backgrounding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extenuating Circumstances: Wall Hangings in the Hall of Justice in 'S by P. E. Spijkerman, Wytze Patijn, Jan Rutten (1998)
"Tapestries derive their perspective from borders, from repeated motifs and from
the interplay between foregrounding and backgrounding. ..."
2. The Formation of Tennyson's Style: A Study, Primarily of the Versification by James Francis Augustin Pyre (1921)
"The backgrounding is only less rich than that of The Gardener's Daughter, but
not like that, over-elaborate; there is not a detail to wish away. ..."
3. Tapestries, Their Origin, History and Renaissance by George Leland Hunter (1912)
"Gothic verdures were actual forests, backgrounding animals and personages.
Renaissance verdures enlarged the verdure and shaded-leaf details toward realism ..."
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