Dictionary
context
Meaning
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- 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.
- 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.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkɒn.tɛkst/
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