Context is the surroundings Surroundings are the area around a given physical or geographical point or place. The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definition, circumstances, environment, background, or settings which determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event.
Context may also refer to:
- Context (language use) Verbal context refers to surrounding text or talk of an expression . The idea is that verbal context influences the way we understand the expression. Hence the norm not to cite people 'out of context'. Since much contemporary linguistics takes texts, discourses or conversations as its object of analysis, the modern study of 'verbal context' takes, the relevant constraints of the communicative situation that influence language use, language variation, and discourse
- Archaeological context In archaeology, not only the context of a discovery is a significant fact, but the formation of the context is as well. An archaeological context is an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record. The cutting of a pit or ditch in the past is a context, whilst the material filling it will be another. Multiple fills, seen as, an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record
Computing
- Context (computing) In computer science, a task context is the minimal set of data used by this task that must be saved to allow a task interruption at a given date, and a continuation of this task at the point it has been interrupted and at an arbitrary future date. The concept of context assumes significance in the case of interruptible tasks, wherein upon being, the virtual environment required to suspend a running software program
- ConTeXt Context is the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background, or settings which determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event, a macro package for the TeX typesetting system
- ConTEXT Context is the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background, or settings which determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event, a Windows text editor
Other
- Opaque context The term is used in philosophical theories of reference, and is to be contrasted with "transparent context". For example:
- Trama (mycology) (context or flesh), the mass of non-hymenial tissues that composes the mass of a fungal fruiting body
See also
- All pages beginning with "Context"
- All pages with titles containing "Context"
- Contextual (disambiguation)
- Contextualization (disambiguation)
- Locality (disambiguation)
- State (disambiguation)
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