Usually means: Varies depending on surrounding information.
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  1. context-sensitive, context-sensitive: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Context-sensitive, context-sensitive: Wordnik
  3. context-sensitive: Wiktionary
  4. context-sensitive: Dictionary.com
  5. Context-sensitive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. context-sensitive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. context-sensitive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (context-sensitive)

adjective:  (computing, philosophy) Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.
adjective:  (grammar) Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.
adjective:  (grammar) Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.

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