The word Context have a couple of meanings:
- Context (language): the text in which a word or passage appears and which affects its meaning; also the words and social setting which surrounds a spoken word or passage.
- ConTeXt, a macro package for the TeX typesetting system
- ConTEXT, a Windows text editor
- Context (computing), the virtual environment required to suspend a running software program
- Archaeological context, an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record
- the Context Science Fiction Convention Archived 2007-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, held every fall in Columbus, Ohio
Context may also be used for:
- Context analysis, analysis of the environment in which a business operates
- Context awareness, ability for computers to adjust to the natural environment
- Context menu, usability improvement based on context awareness
- Context mixing, a type of data compression algorithm
- Context principle, philosophy of language
- Context Sensitive Solutions, transportation
- Context theory, theory of how environmental design and planning of new development should relate to its context
- Contextualization, a translation approach that is not literal; predominately used in regards to Bible translations
- Trama (context or flesh), the mass of non-hymenial tissues that composes the mass of a fungal fruiting body
- Low context culture
- High context culture
