Figure and ground
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Figure and ground or Figure ground may refer to:
- Figure and ground (media), a concept developed by media theorist Marshall McLuhan
- Figure–ground (perception), referring to humans' ability to separate foreground from background in visual images. Figure-ground perception is one of the main issues in gestalt psychology.
- Figure-ground in map design, the ability to easily discriminate the main figure from the ground