Foreground

Definitions

1. The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.
2. The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work.
3. The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.
   attributive, often

Equivalents

Examples

“Note⟳ the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.”

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