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The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in...

view of the world. antiquities Ancient artefacts, particularly in the context of their trade and collection. antiquity The ancient past, in particular...

Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources. The company is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States, west of Detroit...

Quoting out of context (sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining) is an informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding...

high-context culture and low-context culture are ends of a continuum of how explicit the messages exchanged in a culture are and how important the context...

context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind. Context...

theory, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar whose production rules can be applied to a nonterminal symbol regardless of its context. In particular...

In computing, a context switch is the process of storing the state of a process or thread, so that it can be restored and resume execution at a later...

particular concern is OpenSSL's storage of the keys in an application-wide context (SSL_CTX), i.e. for the life of the application, and not allowing for re-keying...

from diff and has the ability to match context. X/Open Portability Guide issue 2 of 1987 includes diff. Context mode was added in POSIX.1-2001 (issue 6)...

device context (DC) defines the attributes of text and images for the output device, e.g., screen or printer. GDI maintains the actual context. Generating...

able to recognize about 96% of context-sensitive spelling errors, in addition to ordinary non-word spelling errors. Context-sensitive spell checkers appeared...

Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) is an online project for discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records in regard to individual...

cycles per memory access). On an address-space switch, as occurs when context switching between processes (but not between threads), some TLB entries...

In mycology, the term trama is used in two ways. In the broad sense, it is the inner, fleshy portion of a mushroom's basidiocarp, or fruit body. It is...

The budgerigar (/ˈbʌdʒərɪˌɡɑːr, -əriː-/ BUJ-ər-ih-gar, -⁠ə-ree-; Melopsittacus undulatus), also known as the common parakeet, shell parakeet or budgie...

Evolutionism is a term used (usually derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution...

physical CPU. In some contexts, a file containing scripting instructions (such as bytecode) may also be considered executable. The context in which execution...

sentences are mapped to functions called context change potentials, which take an input context and return an output context. Dynamic semantics was originally...

Proteus syndrome is a rare disorder with a genetic background that can cause tissue overgrowth involving all three embryonic lineages. Patients with Proteus...