Background may refer to:
Performing arts and stagecraft
- Background actor
- Background artist
- Background light
- Background music
- Background story
- Background vocals
- Background (play), a 1950 play by Warren Chetham-Strode
Recorded works
- Background (1953 film), a British drama
- Background (1973 film), a documentary
- Background (TV series), a Canadian journalistic television series
- Background (Lifetime album), 1992
- 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 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)