context-sensitive

Meaning

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

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

Similar words

contextual context right-click shortcut contextualistic microcontextual situative contextualist sociocontextual subcontextual