backlight

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From back + light

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia

backlight (plural backlights)

1. A spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind.
2. A light attached to an LCD display.
3. The rear window of a motor car.

[edit] Verb

to backlight (third-person singular simple present backlights, present participle backlighting, simple past and past participle backlighted or backlit)

1. To illuminate something from behind.
   • 2007 June 2, James R. Oestreich, “Strange, Faraway Fantasies of Hell and Paradise”, New York Times:

     It offers few subtleties, but those can be effective, as when the chorus is backlighted in the rear of the auditorium to produce an ominous play of shadows onstage.