How to pronounce “context”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
• (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
• (archaeology) 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.
• (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
• (logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
• (programming) The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.
• [Verb]
• (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
• [Adjective]
• (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

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