Definition of "backgrounding" [back•ground•ing]

• The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "The occasions now are actually informal social visits, and are more useful to the Legation than to the correspondents, since they offer opportunities to discuss and compare interpretations of local events and trends, and to acquire intelligent backgrounding from a Hungarian viewpoint."
• "His advances are quiet but necessary ones: For instance, a backgrounding rather than foregrounding of the ego; an insistence on archetype, atemporality, and minimalist punctuation; and a preference for the non-metaphorized image."
• "If I get to the backgrounding phase - I will be ecstatic!"