backlight
English
Etymology
back + light
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbæk.laɪt/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
backlight (plural backlights)
- (uncountable) Light shining from a source behind the object of interest or attention.
- The backlight from the sunset cast the pier and the crowd in silhouette.
- Egg candling uses backlight to look for chick embryos.
- (countable) A spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind.
- (uncountable) Light that is behind a photographic subject.
- 2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 73:
- If I do use backlight, it's not to separate the subject from the background; I use it to set a psychological mood, or to create a look.
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- (countable) A light attached to an LCD display.
- (countable) The rear window of a motor car.
Translations
spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind
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light attached to an LCD display
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rear window of a motor car
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Verb
backlight (third-person singular simple present backlights, present participle backlighting, simple past and past participle backlighted or backlit)
- (transitive) To illuminate something from behind.
- 2007 June 2, James R. Oestreich, “Strange, Faraway Fantasies of Hell and Paradise”, in New York Times:
- It offers few subtleties, but those can be effective, as when the chorus is backlighted in the rear of the auditorium to produce an ominous play of shadows onstage.
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Translations
illuminate something from behind
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