backlighted

Variant of backlight

backlight definition

back·light (-līt′)

transitive verb backlit -·lit′ (-lit′) or backlighted -·light′·ed, backlighting -·light′·ing

to light, or illuminate, from the rear or from the side away from the camera or the viewer

noun

light or illumination from behind the person or thing being viewed
also backlighting back′·light′·ing

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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