Look up: context

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   Context
   The careful investigation of objects in situ usually gives far more valuable information, than just the object by itself. An object without provenance (place of origin) has lost its story.
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   The environment in which a process runs, including it's set of register values within the CPU, the current stack values, which instruction is being executed, and the allowable memory access boundaries. A context switch is a sudden change in these, for example, a function call which modifies the stack, registers, and instruction pointer simultaneously, or a CPU's switch from executing one process to another, which produces similar effects.
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   context
   The inner or body tissue of a fruit body which supports the hymenophore in the larger and especially the pileate species of Hymenomycetes.
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   context
   [n] - the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event 2. [n] - discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
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   the setting in which speech or writing takes place
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   (Context (contextual / contextualise)) Context is always an important aspect to consider whenever you analyse a text. Context refers to those particular elements of a situation that in some way or another affect the text (for example, the effects of time, place, ideology, social hierarchies, relationships, etc.). Importantly, language has two pote...
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   Context
   The non-linguistic situation in which spoken or written language is used, and in which the learner is operating.
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   In archaeology, an artefact's matrix (the sediment or material surrounding it), its provenance (its three-dimensional position within that matrix), and its association with other...
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   context
   all the factors which systematically determine the form, meaning, appropriateness or translation of linguistic expressions. One can distinguish between linguistic context (provided by the preceding utterances or text) and non-linguistic context (including shared assumptions and information).
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    Context
    The framework surrounding a particular event. This framework will often determine how a particular experience or event is interpreted.
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    Context
    the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help explain it.
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    That which surrounds, and gives meaning to, something else. (grammar) In a grammar it refers to the symbols before and after the symbol under consideration. If the syntax of a symbol is independent of its context, the grammar is said to be context-free.
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    context
    the set of circumstances or facts that define a particular situation,event,etc.The portion of the situation that remains the same when an operator is applied in a problem-solving situation Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the text surrounding a term,or the situation in which the term is used. Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and com...
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    Con·text' adjective [ Latin contextus , past participle of contexere to weave, to unite; con- + texere to weave. See Text .] Knit or woven together; close; firm. [ Obsolete] « The coats, without, are context and callous. Derham. »
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/147
    
    
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    Con'text noun [ Latin contextus ; confer French contexte .] The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning. « According to all the light that the contexts afford. Sharp. »
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    Con·text' transitive verb To knit or bind together; to unite closely. [ Obsolete] Feltham. « The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts. R. Junius. »
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    linguistic context noun discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
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    context
    noun the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; `the historical context`
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    Context
    `Context` may refer to: * ConTeXt, a macro package for the TeX typesetting system * ConTEXT, a Windows Text Editor * Context (language use), the relevant constraints of the communicative situation that influence language use, language variation and discourse * Context (computing), the virtual environment required to suspend a running software program * Context (convention), an annual science fiction, fantasy and horror convention in Columbus, Oh...
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    ConTeXt
    `ConTeXt` is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. It was designed with the same general-purpose aims as LaTeX, but being younger reflects much more recent thinking about the structure of the markup, is more modular in its conception, and more monolithic in its building. ConTeXt gives more control to the `end user` and makes it easier to create new layout without learning TeX macro language. ConTeXt is consistent in i...
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    ConTEXT
    `ConTEXT` is a closed-source freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows, aimed at software developers. It can open and edit very large files, while requiring only modest amounts of RAM and hard drive space to run. It has built-in syntax highlighters for C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, 80x86 assembler, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Perl/CGI, HTML, SQL, Python, PHP, Tcl/Tk, and its own syntax highlighter definition language. Other features are code templa...
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    • (a.) Knit or woven together; close; firm. • (n.) The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning. • (v. t.) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
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    context 1. A discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation. 2. The words, phrases, or passages that come before and after a particular word or passage in a speech or piece of writing and help to explain its full meaning. 3. The set of facts or the circumstances or events that form the environment within which somethin...
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    The relation of an artifact or cultural remains to the surrounding artifacts or remains and to the soil level in which they were found. The surrounding conditions of an archaeological find.
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