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context-sensitive

context-sensitive adjective: sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.

Adjective

context-sensitive (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.
    Antonyms:
    context-free
  3. Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.
    • We introduce two new techniques for proving termination of context-sensitive rewriting.

Antonyms of context-sensitive

Phrases with context-sensitive

Questions about context-sensitive

What does context-sensitive mean?
Context-sensitive means sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.
What part of speech is context-sensitive?
Context-sensitive is an adjective.

Words near context-sensitive in the dictionary

  1. context-free
  2. context-free grammar
  3. context-free grammars
  4. context-free language
  5. context-free languages
  6. context-sensitive
  7. context-sensitive grammar
  8. context-sensitive grammars
  9. contexted
  10. contextful
  11. contextfulness

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