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# backlighting

noun (backlighting)

«backlighting» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

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

### Note

Uncountable. Verb: backlight (backlit).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «backlighting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backlighting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«backlighting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/backlighting.html) on Mova free.