context-free
English
adj
Definitions
- (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
- (linguistics) (Of a formal language) which can be decided by a pushdown automaton or a context-free grammar (sense 1)
Etymology
Suffix from English context.
Origin
English
context
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- context English
- contextful English
- contextless English
- contextomy English
- contextual English
- macrocontext English
- metacontext English
- microcontext English
- subcontext English
- supercontext English
- contextus Latin
- Kontext German
- コンテキスト Japanese