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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contextual
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assumption
▪ For example, the hearer may be expected to access a range of contextual assumptions about the effort of running up hills.
▪ That is, the reformulation draws the hearer's attention to the range of contextual assumptions which distinguish sprinting from ordinary running.
▪ However, there is no specific set of contextual assumptions which the hearer is expected to supply.
factor
▪ What is at issue is the way different uses of language realize the complementary relationship between linguistic resources and contextual factors.
▪ It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution's regulations, resources and ethos.
▪ One further contextual factor had an important bearing on this analysis.
▪ We need now to examine the role of contextual factors directly and in more detail.
▪ It will be evident that the Pearce-Hall theory finds it difficult to deal with the effects of contextual factors.
information
▪ Subjects were given varying amounts of contextual information.
▪ All the contextual information is lost.
▪ The only way for correct recognition to be achieved in such situations is by the use of additional contextual information.
▪ Human readers usually have little difficulty with most types of ambiguity, since they can effortlessly apply a variety of contextual information.
▪ These various approaches have a number of problems, and it was established that contextual information is necessary in addition to a pattern recogniser.
▪ Three approaches are generally considered for the application of contextual information in the field of text recognition.
▪ It has been established that contextual information is necessary in addition to a pattern recogniser.
▪ This is more than skills because the total expertise will include also rules, knowledge and contextual information.
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▪ contextual information
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, we see the surprisingly pervasive role that presumptions of contextual appropriateness play in successful communication.
▪ In this respect, the basic criterion for normality is not actual occurrence but contextual plausibility.
▪ Notice that the principle of contextual plausibility allows legitimacy to expressions which arise in the contrived contexts of the classroom.
▪ The anthropological excursion which they undertook was there to show the arbitrariness, the contextual, relative nature of these concepts.
▪ They indicate the relationship of utterances in the mind or in the world and are thus in a way contextual.
▪ This would constitute information - data plus a contextual framework allowing a larger picture to be revealed.
▪ Underlying these questions are contextual issues of relevance and motivation.
▪ We choose the most likely meaning for it from the world, and in this case the meaning is contextual.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
contextual

c.1820, from context on model of textual, etc. In philosophy, contextual definition is recorded from 1934, along with contextualization, contextualize. Related: Contextualized.

Wiktionary
contextual

a. Of, pertaining to, or depending on the context of information; relating to the situation or location in which the information was found.

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WordNet
contextual

adj. relating to or determined by or in context; "contextual information"

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Wikipedia
Contextual

Contextual may refer to:

  • Contextual advertising, advertisements based on other content displayed
  • Contextual design, user-centered design process developed by Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt
  • Contextual inquiry, user-centered design method, part of the contextual design methodology
  • Contextual learning, learning outside the classroom
  • Contextual Theatre, form of theatre
  • Comparative contextual analysis, methodology for comparative research
  • Contextual deep linking, links that bring users to content in mobile apps regardless of whether or not they had the app previously installed

Usage examples of "contextual".

It is not that there is experience on the one hand and contextual molding on the other.

An example is the jargon of the Merovingian canalers, which, like many unwritten languages, is highly contextual: one word may have a dozen implications depending on situation and tone of voice.

It includes virtual keyboards, front-end processors, and a contextual processor and text layout engine for left to right and right to left language formatting.

From contextual data, I must conclude that my peripatetic envoy has been kidnapped.