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"background knowledge of" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe the information or understanding that a person has about a particular topic or subject, which may have been acquired through previous experience, education, or research. An example of using "background knowledge of" in a sentence could be: "The student's background knowledge of art history greatly enhanced their understanding of the Renaissance period." This sentence shows that the student's previous knowledge about art history helped them gain a deeper understanding of the specific time period being studied.
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Others obviously have a background knowledge of what they are writing about.
I have a good background knowledge of how the space shuttle works and what makes it fly".
Reading also requires background knowledge of cultural, historical and social references.
Castor is determined to tell Joan's story, and France's story, "forwards, not backwards", meaning, armed with background knowledge of the tangled politics of the 1420s rather than hindsight from 1456.
He was shocked to discover those from poorer backgrounds struggled to read a passage on the surrender of General Robert E Lee near their home town of Richmond – because they lacked the necessary background knowledge of the American Civil War.
Rather than letting nuclear experts roam free, wouldn't it be better, he suggested, "to take in and put under thorough control practically every physicist in the country having background knowledge of the subject"?
We differentiate between approaches that assume attackers have: no background knowledge (NBK), background knowledge of the outsourced data's schema (BKS), background knowledge of the outsourced data's content (BKD) and background knowledge of the outsourced data and executed queries (BKQ).
SC pertains to the background knowledge of societal norms and customs and cultural heritage.
The two researchers were fluent in Chinese and English, and also had background knowledge of TMD.
Section 2 devotes to the background knowledge of the network calculus.
For this purpose, certain assumptions about the background knowledge of the hypothetical enemy must be made.
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