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Definition of Screen background

1. Noun. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Screen Background

Literary usage of Screen background

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Well-Being of Video Display Terminal Users: An Exploratory Study by Mark S Gottlieb, Steven L Sauter, Vernon M Dodson, Kathryn M Rohrer (1999)
"Along this line, the present data show a low positive (r » .13) but nonsignificant correlation between visuo-ocular strain scores and screen background ..."

2. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"... at right, two cherubs in adoration ; above, three cherubs, one of them hanging a curtain between trees, as a screen ; background, mountains. ..."

3. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1911)
"Plenty of naturalists carry a screen background with them when photographing high- growing flowers, and place it behind the flowers to make them stand out ..."

4. The American Amateur Photographer (1897)
"Our Pets," two children and a cat asleep in an arm chair, and a Japanese screen background, has only one fault, and that a little one. ..."

5. Library of Amateur Photography (1911)
"18, which gives the location of the subject, camera, reflecting screen, background, etc. 318. Exposure.—The exposure for Rembrandt Lighting requires ..."

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