Usually means: Grammar independent from surrounding text.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. context-free: Merriam-Webster
  2. context-free: Wordnik
  3. context-free: Wiktionary
  4. context-free: Dictionary.com
  5. Context-free: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. context-free: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. context-free: CCI Computer
  3. context-free: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. context-free: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (context-free)

adjective:  (linguistics) (Of a grammar) which generates sentences in stages, in such a way that at any intermediate stage, any piece of the sentence is enough to determine the corresponding piece at the next stage; that is, the stagewise transformation at a point does not depend on the rest of the sentence
adjective:  (linguistics) (Of a formal language) which can be decided by a pushdown automaton or a context-free grammar (sense 1)

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