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Backlight vs Backlit - What's the difference?

backlight | backlit |

As verbs the difference between backlit and backlight

is that backlit is past tense of backlight while backlight is to illuminate something from behind.

As an adjective backlit

is lit or illuminated from behind.

As a noun backlight is

a spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind.

backlight

English

Noun

(wikipedia backlight) (en noun)
  • A spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind.
  • A light attached to an LCD display.
  • The rear window of a motor car.

    • Verb

  • To illuminate something from behind.
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    • , passage=It offers few subtleties, but those can be effective, as when the chorus is backlighted in the rear of the auditorium to produce an ominous play of shadows onstage. }}

    backlit

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (backlight)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • lit or illuminated from behind