SCREEN BACKGROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does screen background mean? 

• SCREEN BACKGROUND (noun)
  The noun SCREEN BACKGROUND has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SCREEN BACKGROUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCREEN BACKGROUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

background; desktop; screen background

Hypernyms ("screen background" is a kind of...):

CRT screen; screen (the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)