Without context that may be needed for understanding the original meaning.

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

plural of context menu

(computing, graphical user interface) A context-sensitive menu.

plural of licensing context

The environment in which a polarity item is permitted to appear.

The surrounding information that can help (a reader, spectator, etc.) infer the meaning of an unknown or ambiguous word, plot point, etc.

plural of context clue

(idiomatic, transitive) To report (something) without taking into account the context in which it occurred.

(computing theory) A formal grammar in which every production rule is such that the left-hand side is exactly one non-terminal symbol and the right-hand side is zero or more terminal symbols and/or nonterminal symbols.