context-sensitive
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]context-sensitive (not comparable)
- (computing, philosophy) 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.
- (grammar) Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.
- Antonym: context-free
- (grammar) Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.
- We introduce two new techniques for proving termination of context-sensitive rewriting.
Translations
[edit]sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation
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involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny
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relating to a context-sensitive grammar
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