A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
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).
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
To put in a position that is not prominent.
To gather and provide background information (on).
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
The natural world or ecosystem.
The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.