Context

Context may refer to:


 * Context (linguistics), the relevant constraints of the communicative situation that influence language use, language variation, and discourse summary

Computing

 * Context (computing), the virtual environment required to suspend a running software program
 * Lexical context or runtime context of a program, which determines name resolution
 * Context awareness, a complementary to location awareness
 * Context menu, a menu in a graphical user interface that appears upon user interaction
 * ConTeXt, a macro package for the TeX typesetting system
 * ConTEXT, a text editor for Microsoft Windows
 * Operational context, a temporarily defined environment of cooperation
 * Context (term rewriting), a formal expression $$C[.]$$ with a hole

Other uses

 * Context (festival), an annual Russian festival of modern choreography
 * Archaeological context, an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record
 * Opaque context, the linguistic context in which substitution of co-referential expressions does not preserve truth
 * Trama (mycology) (context or flesh), the mass of non-hymenial tissues that composes the mass of a fungal fruiting body
 * Context (rapper), also known as Context MC, stage name of George Musgrave