"backgrounding" in the noun sense
1. background processing, backgrounding
the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system
"backgrounding" in the verb sense
1. background, play down, downplay
understate the importance or quality of
"he played down his royal ancestry"
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