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context
/ˈkɑn.tɛkst/
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What does context mean?
noun
- The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
- The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
- The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
More meanings (5)
noun
- The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
- For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
- The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.
verb
- (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
adjective
- (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɑn.tɛkst/
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He is thinking, not of the context in Plato, but of the contemporary Pythagorean philosophers and their wordy strife.
To a certain extent the tendencies of each separate case must be viewed in their environmental context to be well understood.
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The two factors of truth in the conception may easily be disentangled from association with the false context which perverts them.
Wherever a closer discrimination seems essential to the argument, the effort to make such a closer discrimination will be evident from the context.
The word cucumis used in the original of this passage embraces many of the cucurbitaceae, but the context shows that here means the cucumber.