(computing, philosophy) Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.

Not in the context necessary to show original meaning.

Without context that may be needed for understanding the original meaning.

(linguistics) (Of a grammar) which generates sentences in stages, in such a way that at any intermediate stage, any piece of the sentence is enough to determine the corresponding piece at the next stage; that is, the stagewise transformation at a point does not depend on the rest of the sentence

The environment in which a polarity item is permitted to appear.

plural of licensing context

plural of context clue

The surrounding information that can help (a reader, spectator, etc.) infer the meaning of an unknown or ambiguous word, plot point, etc.

plural of context-free grammar

(idiomatic, transitive) To report (something) without taking into account the context in which it occurred.