Context add scope to abstractions.
Context limits the amount of information needed to create a contextual systems.
Cultural Definition
The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence. "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."
(linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
(archaeology) 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.
(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
Context (Language Use) (Wikipedia)
Context is a notion used in the language sciences (linguistics, sociolinguistics, systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, semiotics, etc.) in two different ways, namely as
- verbal context
- social context
Context (Computing) (Wikipedia)
In computer science, a task context (process, thread ...) is the minimal set of data used by this task that must be saved to allow a task interruption at a given date, and a continuation of this task at the point it has been interrupted and at an arbitrary future date. The concept of context assumes significance in the case of interruptible tasks, wherein upon being interrupted the processor saves the context and proceeds to serve the Interrupt service routine. Thus, the smaller the context is, the smaller the latency is.
Morphology (Linguistics) (Wikipedia)
In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis, and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of speech, intonations and stresses, or implied context.
Pattern Expression
All known physical entities, possibly all entities, are not able to focus on the infinite information of Existence. Context is needed to limit the information.