English to English
foreground
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noun (n)
- the part of a scene that is near the viewer(noun.cognition)source: wordnet30
- (computer science) a window for an active application(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance,
n. , 6.(noun)source: webster1913