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# backlighting

«backlighting» in Mova's school dictionary: **Light placed behind something, like the light behind a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (backlighting)

### meaning for a pupil

Light placed behind something, like the light behind a phone or laptop screen, or behind a person in a photo or play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backlighting/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In computing and photography lessons: screens use backlighting; in photos, backlighting makes outlines glow. Phrases: «screen backlighting», «keyboard backlighting».

### examples

- Turn down the backlighting to save battery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backlighting/#x1)
- Backlighting made her hair glow in the photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backlighting/#x2)
- The keyboard has backlighting for the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backlighting/#x3)
- Stage backlighting showed the dancers' shapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backlighting/#x4)
- Strong backlighting can make faces look dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backlighting/#x5)
- The old e-reader had no backlighting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backlighting/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Verb: backlight (backlit).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «backlighting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backlighting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.