Starfield

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A starry backdrop.

    "This paper describes continuing research on metaphoric abstractions in developing an interface that employs the starfield (the night sky) as its underlying metaphor."

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"This paper describes continuing research on metaphoric abstractions in developing an interface that employs the starfield (the night sky) as its underlying metaphor."

Etymology

From star + field.

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