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foreground
the area of space in a perspective picture, depicted as nearest the viewer

foreground [′fȯr‚grau̇nd]
(computer science)
A program or process of high priority that utilizes machine facilities as needed, with less critical, background work performed in otherwise unused time.

foreground - (Unix) On a time-sharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user in contrast to one running in the background. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with Unix, but it appears first to have been used in this sense on OS/360. Normally, there is only one foreground task per terminal (or terminal window). Having multiple processes simultaneously reading the keyboard is confusing.


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Foregrounding issues of gender and race and the interplay between them, she walks readers through the Civil War era, Reconstruction, the return of white supremacy, the prelude to reform, the Progressive spirit, the suffrage movement and other politics through World War I, the modern decades, the Great Depression and the New Deal, and World War II.
By foregrounding abjection in paintings like the award-winning Melancholia (1986), Dora and the Other Woman (1988), and Cape of Good Hope--'A History Painting' (1989-90), among others, Schmahmann enriches our understanding of Siopis's ability to upturn restrictions upon and among women that South Africa once cast as different.
Foregrounding dynamics of standardization, consumption, and capitalism highlights the manner in which power circulates in and through seemingly benign social institutions and discourses.
 
 
 
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