context-sensitive
adj1
Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Philosophy, Physical sciences, Sciences 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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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.
- We introduce two new techniques for proving termination of context-sensitive rewriting.
- Related terms
- context-dependent