contextual

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Contextual means depending on the surrounding circumstances. A contextual judgement.

It says the same thing means different things in different settings, which is obvious and constantly forgotten. Contextual information is what a quotation loses when it is lifted out.

Definitions of contextual

1adjectivecontextualDepending on the surrounding circumstances.C1
“The whole decision was contextual and would be different next year.”

contextual is a quality.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*tetḱ-
Latin
contextus
English
context
English, today
contextual

From context + -ual. context comes from Latin contextus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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contextual in the wild

Contextual advertising (also called contextual targeting) is a form of targeted digital advertising.
Contextual advertising
Contextual inquiry (CI) is a user-centered design (UCD) research method, part of the contextual design methodology.
Contextual inquiry
In a simpler manner, "when events are represented in memory, contextual information is stored along with memory targets; the context can therefore cue memories containing that contextual information".
Context-dependent memory
Rather, contextual search attempts to increase the precision of results based on how valuable they are to individual users.
Contextual searching
In linguistics, givenness is the degree to which a speaker assumes certain contextual information of a topic of discourse is already known to the listener.
Givenness

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the contextus family

context

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