Context

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: context.

The word Context have a couple of meanings:

• Context (language): the text in which a word or passage appears and which affects its meaning; also the words and social setting which surrounds a spoken word or passage.

• ConTeXt, a macro package for the TeX typesetting system
• ConTEXT, a Windows text editor
• Context (computing), the virtual environment required to suspend a running software program
• Archaeological context, an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record
• the Context Science Fiction Convention, held every fall in Columbus, Ohio

Context may also be used for:

• Context analysis, analysis of the environment in which a business operates
• Context awareness, ability for computers to adjust to the natural environment
• Context menu, usability improvement based on context awareness
• Context mixing, a type of data compression algorithm
• Context principle, philosophy of language
• Context Sensitive Solutions, transportation
• Context theory, theory of how environmental design and planning of new development should relate to its context
• Contextualization, a translation approach that is not literal; predominately used in regards to Bible translations
• Trama (context or flesh), the mass of non-hymenial tissues that composes the mass of a fungal fruiting body
• Low context culture
• High context culture