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The current status, condition or mode of a system. See context sensitive help.

context - That which surrounds, and gives meaning to, something else.

In a grammar it refers to the symbols before and after the symbol under consideration. If the syntax of a symbol is independent of its context, the grammar is said to be context-free.
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