2. Noun. A light attached to an LCD display. ¹
3. Noun. The rear window of a motor car. ¹
4. Verb. To illuminate something from behind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backlight
1. to illuminate from behind [v -LIT or -LIGHTED, -LIGHTING, -LIGHTS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backlight
Literary usage of Backlight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Catalogue of the Devices and Their Parts Manufactured by the Union Switch by Union Switch and Signal Company (1894)
"BOLT AND NUT, l^"x1", for fastening semaphore and backlight rings and rubber
blade and disc. ... WASHER, special, 5/s", for semaphore and backlight pins. ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1845)
"I have now fitted up some pictures, so as to admit the backlight upon different
parts at different times; an arrangement which obviously increases ..."
3. The Pit-Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts (1922)
"Willis's taxi ran on past the other, and through the backlight the inspector saw
Archer alight and pass into the hotel. Stopping at a door in Bloomsbury ..."
4. JTEC Panel Report on Display Technologies in Japan (1993)
"What backlight technology do you see as most suitable for AMLCD laptops?
Portable TV on the wall? A. No answer given. Q. What novel research in backlight ..."
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