Context

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Context

the "situation" (placement) or relationship of something to its surroundings
- with words, "context" means how a word or words relate and interact to the words around them
  - thus "contextual meaning" is derived from a word's "situation" within a text

Context etymology

from Latin contextus for "a joining together" or "woven together"
- con- (with) + texere (to weave)
from PIE *teks- "to weave, make or fabricate"

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