context-sensitive

context-sensitive (not comparable)

1. (computing, philosophy) Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.

   Right-click anywhere in the document window, and a context-sensitive menu appears.

2. (grammar) Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.

   Antonym: context-free

3. (grammar) Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.

   We introduce two new techniques for proving termination of context-sensitive rewriting.

• context-dependent