contextual

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That keeps you on your toes-almost everything has to be contextual, which is quite different to traditional Mac development.

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  1. adjective Of, involving, or depending on a context.

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  • They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers, what I call web thinkers. —  Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat
  • If the message is hyper targeted and contextual, the frequency or inventory management will not be issues.
  • Ever notice that a lot of those little ads are anything but contextual, and actually quite generic? —  Recovering Journalist
  • They had just come up with their version of contextual-text advertisng system. —  GigaOM Network
  • Google's success is predicated on the fact that traditional forms of advertising are less effective than paid search, contextual, and other, more measurable, online ads. —  TechCrunch
 

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  1. from Latin contextus, context (see context, n.), + -al.
 

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/kənˈtɛkstʃjuəl/
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