Medical Dictionary
figure–ground
adj \-ˈgrau̇nd\
Medical Definition of FIGURE-GROUND
: relating to or being the relationships between the parts of a perceptual field which is perceived as divided into a part consisting of figures having form and standing out from the part comprising the background and being relatively formless <a diagram in which figure–ground relationships are easily perceived as reversed>
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