context-sensitive
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context-sensitive
adjective
- Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation. Right-click anywhere in the document window, and a context-sensitive menu appears.
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Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.
Opposite: context-free
- Relating to a context-sensitive grammar. We introduce two new techniques for proving termination of context-sensitive rewriting.
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adj sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation
| Français | contextuel |
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| Deutsch | kontextsensitiv |
adj involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny
| Deutsch | kontextsensitiv |
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adj relating to a context-sensitive grammar
| Deutsch | kontextsensitiv |
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Talk about this word "context-sensitive." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/context-sensitive. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. context-sensitive. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/context-sensitive "context-sensitive." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/context-sensitive.Cite this
@misc{context_sensitive_2026,
title = {context-sensitive},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/context-sensitive},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
