Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, involving, or depending on a context.
from The Century Dictionary.
- . Pertaining to or dealing with the context.
- . Conforming to or literally agreeing with the text: as, a contextual quotation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or depending on the
context ofinformation ; relating to thesituation orlocation in which the information was found.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or determined by or in context
Etymologies
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Examples
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I agree with your assertion that what you term contextual urban fantasy is more open towards a wider variety of protagonists and that it seems to attract more writers who are not straight white men.
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But Ian had decided that what he called contextual archaeology required a constant flow of information between the excavators and the specialists.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Zoho Blogs 2009
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Instead, Arnold teaches students to hear each pitch in relation to the music's key-what he calls contextual ear training.
unknown title 2009
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One advertising area where the structural economics will make it difficult to run a business without significant improvements in contextual targeting and user preference modeling is the mobile advertising space, Internet advertising models translate poorly there, but that is a large topic unto itself.
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Instead, in the second, I addressed long-term contextual issues that are far more appropriate for the work of the federal government than its tinkering with the grammar of schooling.
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She is also one of the most respected experts in contextual advertising, and her podcast on WebmasterRadio on the subject is one of the most listened to shows on the site.
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It's blowing a bit of a mini-seaside gale down here this morning, and "local contextual" is one of my high priority areas of interest at moment: So Google's leveraging and pathway to (free/performance) monetisation of Google Maps is an interesting strategy.
Local Contextual on Google Maps. Ben Barren 2006
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It's blowing a bit of a mini-seaside gale down here this morning, and "local contextual" is one of my high priority areas of interest at moment: So Google's leveraging and pathway to (free/performance) monetisation of Google Maps is an interesting strategy.
Archive 2006-08-01 Ben Barren 2006
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I'm most interested in contextual ads (ala gmail) when applied in a self-service manner to RSS feeds.
Contextual Advertising 101 Ben Barren 2005
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word contextual
Fantastic word, and very useful.
August 4, 2009