foreground

n. area closest to the viewer; environment where the active application is found and where the user works and to which most of a system's resources are allocated (Computers)

Noun
1. the part of a scene that is near the viewer
(hypernym) view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama
(derivation) highlight, spotlight, play up
2. (computer science) a window for an active application
(hypernym) window
(part-holonym) screen, CRT screen
(classification) computer science, computing
Verb
1. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
(synonym) highlight, spotlight, play up
(antonym) background, play down, downplay
(hypernym) bring out, set off

(Unix) On a time-sharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user in contrast to one running in the background. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with Unix, but it appears first to have been used in this sense on OS/360. Normally, there is only one foreground task per terminal (or terminal window). Having multiple processes simultaneously reading the keyboard is confusing.
[Jargon File]
(1994-10-24)

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Synonyms and related words:
anteriority, approach, approximation, bold front, brave face, brave front, closeness, confines, convergence, display, environs, facade, face, facet, facia, fore, forefront, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, head, heading, immediacy, immediate foreground, lap, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, obverse, precinct, preface, prefix, priority, propinquity, proscenium, proximity, purlieus, vicinage, vicinity, window dressing