context-sensitive
Adjective

context-sensitive (not comparable)

  1. (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.
  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.
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