context-sensitive

English

Adjective

context-sensitive (not comparable)

1. (computing) 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. (linguistics, of a grammar) Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.
3. (linguistics) Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.

   We introduce two new techniques for proving termination of context-sensitive rewriting.

Antonyms

• (linguistics): context-free

Translations

• Icelandic: samhengisháður (is) m