Context-sensitive

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation. not-comparable

    "Right-click anywhere in the document window, and a context-sensitive menu appears."

  2. 2
    Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Relating to a context-sensitive grammar. not-comparable

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

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"The 'jump' action in this game is context-sensitive, so you can't jump willy-nilly."

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