context

1. 1

   The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.countableuncountable

   • —In what context did your attack on him happen? —We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
2. 2

   The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.countableuncountable

   • Without context, I can't tell if dish refers to a plate, or to the food served thereon.
3. 3

   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.countableuncountable

4. 4

   The trama or flesh of a mushroom.countableuncountable

5. 5

   For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.countableuncountable

6. 6

   The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.countableuncountable

ant. isolation

1. 1

   To knit or bind together; to unite closely.obsolete

   • The whole worlds frame, which is contexted onely by commerce and contracts.
   • If the Subiect bee Historie, or contexted Fable, then I hold it better put in Prose, or Blanks: for ordinarie discourse neuer shewes so well in Meeter

1. 1

   Knit or woven together; close; firm.obsolete

   • 1541?, Robert Copland (translator?), Guydon's Questionary Chirurgical, translation of 1533, Guy de Chauliac, La questionaire des cirugiens at barbiers The skynne is composed & context and woven with thredes and vaynes.
   • the coats, without, are context and callous, firm and strong.