Context

Context may refer to:

• Context (linguistics), the relevant constraints of the communicative situation that influence language use, language variation, and discourse summary

Computing

• Context (computing), the virtual environment required to suspend a running software program
• Lexical context or runtime context of a program, which determines name resolution
• Context awareness, a complementary to location awareness
• Context menu, a menu in a graphical user interface that appears upon user interaction
• ConTeXt, a macro package for the TeX typesetting system
• ConTEXT, a text editor for Microsoft Windows
• Operational context, a temporarily defined environment of cooperation
• Context (term rewriting), a formal expression $C[.]$ with a hole

Other uses

• Context (festival), an annual Russian festival of modern choreography
• Archaeological context, an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record
• Opaque context, the linguistic context in which substitution of co-referential expressions does not preserve truth
• Trama (mycology) (context or flesh), the mass of non-hymenial tissues that composes the mass of a fungal fruiting body
• Context (rapper), also known as Context MC, stage name of George Musgrave
• "Context" (Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle), a TV episode

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Context
• All pages with titles containing Context
• Contextual (disambiguation)
• Contextualization (disambiguation)
• Locality (disambiguation)
• State (disambiguation)