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Noun
/ˈkänˌtekst/,
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contexts, plural;
  1. The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed
    • - the decision was taken within the context of planned cuts in spending
  2. The parts of something written or spoken that immediately precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning
    • - word processing is affected by the context in which words appear
  1. (context) discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
  2. (context) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context"
  3. Contexts, subtitled Understanding People in their Social Worlds, is an official publication of the American Sociological Association. ...
  4. ConTEXT is a text editor for Microsoft Windows that can open and edit very large files, while requiring only modest amounts of RAM and hard drive space to run.
  5. ConTeXt is a general-purpose document processor. It is especially suited for structured documents, automated document production, very fine typography, and multi-lingual typesetting. ...
  6. (Context (computing)) In computer science, a task context (process, thread ...) is the minimal set of data used by this task that must be saved to allow a task interruption at a given date, and a continuation of this task at the point it has been interrupted and at an arbitrary future date. ...
  7. (Context (literary)) Context is a notion used in the language sciences (linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, semiotics, etc.) in two different ways, namely as
  8. (Context (mycology)) Trama is a term used in mycology to indicate the inner portion of a mushroom's basidiocarp, or fruit body. It is distinct from the outer layer of tissue, known as the pileipellis or "cuticle", and the spore-bearing tissue layer known as the hymenium. ...
  9. (context) the text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning; the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings which determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event; The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and ...
  10. (Context) The environment within which a communication or response occurs.  The context is one of the cues that elicit specific responses.
  11. (context) the relationship of artifacts and other cultural remains to each other and the situation in which they are found.
  12. (context) A set of interrelated conditions (such as social, economic, political) in the visual arts that influence and give meaning to the development and reception of thoughts, ideas, or concepts, and that define specific cultures and eras.
  13. (context) The surroundings, or environment. The context given by the surrounding code determines what kind of data a particular expression is expected to return. The three primary contexts are list context, scalar context, and void context. ...
  14. (Context) The environment and circumstances facing your nonprofit which affect risks and risk management efforts. For example, a nonprofit that serves vulnerable clients is exposed to a different array of risks than an organization that doesn’t. ...
  15. Context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves. (Abowd et al. 1999)
  16. context may refer to the environment in which the text was produced, the environment in which the text is set or the environment in which the text is read. The environment may be social, political, historical, philosophical, or physical or a combination of these.
  17. (context) The interrelated conditions in which a play exists or occurs.
  18. (context) the inner or body tissue of a fruiting body that supports the fruiting surface.
  19. (Context) the setting in which speech or writing takes place
  20. (Context) the overall situation (social or cultural) in which the language learning occurs. Also the linguistic environment.
  21. (Context) The setting and conditions in which the content is or can be applied. Content is given different meaning by differing contexts.
  22. (context (of event)) The apparent segment, subjectively selected, of the total field immediately surrounding an event.
  23. (Context) the position of an archaeological find in time and space, established by measuring and assessing its associations, matrix, and provenience.
  24. (context) Everything surrounding the text:? eg. the social, cultural, political, historical, artistic, financial, publication factors surrounding the texts production. And equally, the factors surrounding the reception of the text as it is read ? your context as reader.
  25. Synonyms within Context