English-Swedish translations for background

• bakgrund en
  Många har paramilitär bakgrund.Many have a paramilitary background.
  Det finns dock en bakgrund till detta.However, there is a background to this.
  Förtryck har ofta en religiös bakgrund.Repression often has a religious background.
• fond en
  Med havet som fond och en frisk sjöbris i luften är det lätt att koppla bort vardagen!
  I fonden ljus och mellanblå himmel, i fronten mörkgrönt gräs.
  Med kriget som fond vävs familjernas liv samman.
• bakgrundsbild en
  Den nya bakgrundsbilen föreställer en regnskog.
• skrivbordsbakgrund en

Definition of background

• Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system
• One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past
• A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context
• Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history
• The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows
• To put in a position that is not prominent
• To gather and provide background information (on

Examples

• background noise
• The antivirus program runs on a background thread
• The lawyer had a background in computer science
• There was tons of noise in the background
• The photographer let us pick a background for the portrait
• The antivirus program is running in the background

Related words

• background process
• background check
• background music
• background radiation
• background processing
• background colour
• cosmic background radiation
• cosmic microwave background radiation
• cosmic microwave background