Background

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