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BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does background knowledge mean?
• BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE (noun)
The noun BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE has 1 sense:
1. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
Familiarity information: BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
background; background knowledge
Context example:
the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
Hypernyms ("background knowledge" is a kind of...):
information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)
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