context-sensitive
- Adjective. (computing) Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.
- Adjective. (linguistics) (Of a grammar) Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.
- Adjective. (linguistics) Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.
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