context
Meaning of context
noun
- The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
- The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
Without any context, I can't tell you if the "dish" refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.
- The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
- The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
- For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
verb
To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
adjective
Knit or woven together; close; firm.
Information about context
- The plural form of context is: contexts.
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Hyphenation of context
con-text
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- context is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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Words that rhyme with context
text, subtext, pretext, teletext, ConText, OpenText, intext, plaintext, spintext, protext, videotext, Urtext, ciphertext, hypertext, intertext, martext, urtext, Fastext
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