FIGURE-GROUND


Meaning of FIGURE-GROUND in English

¦ ̷ ̷  ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ adjective

: 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 a part comprising the background and being relatively formless

an ambiguous diagram in which figure-ground relationships are easily perceived as reversed

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