"backlit" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word "backlit" to describe something that is illuminated from behind or in the background, such as a painting which is lit up from a light source behind it. Here is an example sentence: The beachfront bar was illuminated by backlit signs with neon blue letters.
Avenida Bajo de Guía 30, +34 956 362 694, joselitohuerta.com Bar Barbiana, Sanlúcar It has the look of a pricey deli – backlit shelves of wine, artfully arranged langoustines – but the football is always on the television, the mood's relaxed and the drinks are cheap.
Taller grass stems and particularly their flowers stand above their neighbours, so they can be more readily backlit by the low sunlight.
A backpacker who consults his "Rough Guide" for snippets of up-to-date information in a dark tent is unlikely to tote along a Kindle and a lamp, or a paper book, if he can get the e-book on his backlit phone.It is now only a matter of time until absolutely all books become available, and properly formatted, for mobile phones.
Anything emissive, such as a backlit laptop display, would be too bright and too easily detected by enemy surveillance in the battlefield at night.
There, the talk will be of beach houses and yachts on the Red Sea, of hot stocks on the Cairo exchange, and of Egypt's delightfully low-cost labour.A less lucky traveller, however, might instead see these things as most Egyptians do: in the giant backlit billboards that clutter Cairo's roadsides and rooftops, vividly flaunting the unattainable.
Of its main competitors, Irex's iLiad is being sold in a few Borders stores; Amazon's Kindle should be on sale later in the year.Like its rivals (and like a normal book), the Reader is not backlit, which means its screen can be read in direct sunlight but not in the dark.
The screen can be backlit, like a standard LCD, but it is capable of retaining its image because the material the liquid crystals sit on encourages the pixels to stay transparent or opaque once they have been switched.
The liquid-crystal layer also had to be redesigned to allow light to pass through it in both directions.This design can be used in low-power monochromatic mode for reading, but can also switch to backlit colour mode when needed.
Jan Piotrowski ReprintsThis property would make them suitable both for displays that rely on reflected light (so-called electronic paper) and the older, backlit sort that rely on transmitted light.
Famous architects such as Britain's Sir Norman Foster are designing arty bus shelters and kiosks with backlit displays.
But this layer can also be made transparent, so that the display can also be backlit and used in darkness.
