foreground object

collocation in English

meaningsofforegroundandobject

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foreground
noun[S]
uk
/ˈfɔː.ɡraʊnd/us
/ˈfɔːr.ɡraʊnd/
the people, objects, countryside, etc. in a picture or photograph that seem nearest to you and form its ...
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object
noun
uk
/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us
/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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(Definition offoregroundandobjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A large amount of film grain will often cause rough edges around theforegroundobject.
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The minus sign applies to aforegroundobject, and the plus sign applies to a background object.
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This technique assumes theforegroundobjectin an image can be separated from the background.
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The exact time that theforegroundobjecteclipses the other can be used to work out a very precise position along the occulting object's orbit.
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With the minus sign, the derivative is everywhere negative, so that for aforegroundobject, the blur disk size decreases with focal length.
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This is caused when foreground objects (such as galaxies) curve surrounding spacetime (as predicted by general relativity), and deflect passing light rays.
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This exaggeration of relative size can be used to make foreground objects more prominent and striking, while capturing expansive backgrounds.
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Weak gravitational lensing looks at minute distortions of galaxies observed in vast galaxy surveys due to foreground objects through statistical analyses.
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The tree's leaves represent the most foreground objects.
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Knowing this chord and the foreground object's size, a more precise orbit for the object can be determined.
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This is to prevent newly introduced foreground objects from fading into the background.
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Sprites and background were shrunk, while the background became a still image instead of an animated one and the foreground objects and people on each stage were removed.
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With this approach, foreground objects can not always be made perfectly sharp, but the loss of sharpness in near objects may be acceptable if recognizability of distant objects is paramount.
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A special camera can prepare two spools simultaneously: one with actors (or other foreground objects) and another which becomes a mask to combine them into different background.
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