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  2. Context menu - Wikipedia

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    A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application to which ...

  3. Context-free grammar - Wikipedia

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    Context-free grammar. Simplified excerpt of the formal grammar [1] for the C programming language (left), and a derivation of a piece of C code (right) from the nonterminal symbol . Nonterminal symbols are blue and terminal symbols are red. In formal language theory, a context-free grammar ( CFG) is a formal grammar whose production rules can ...

  4. High-context and low-context cultures - Wikipedia

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    In anthropology, high-context culture and low-context culture are ends of a continuum of how explicit the messages exchanged in a culture are and how important the context is in communication. The distinction between cultures with high and low contexts is intended to draw attention to variations in both spoken and non-spoken forms of ...

  5. Human Rights Watch - Wikipedia

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    Human Rights Watch was co-founded by Robert L. Bernstein, [8] Jeri Laber, and Aryeh Neier [9] as a private American NGO in 1978, under the name Helsinki Watch, to monitor the then- Soviet Union 's compliance with the Helsinki Accords. [10] Helsinki Watch adopted a practice of publicly "naming and shaming" abusive governments through media ...

  6. What it’s really like to live in Antarctica

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    For Bullesbach, the answer was “not much.” She and her colleagues were limited to two bags each. “You have three jumpers, two pairs of trousers, lots of socks, and then that’s kind of ...

  7. Quoting out of context - Wikipedia

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    Quoting out of context. Quoting out of context (sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining) is an informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. [1] Context may be omitted intentionally or accidentally, thinking it to be non-essential.

  8. Context switch - Wikipedia

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    Context switch. In computing, a context switch is the process of storing the state of a process or thread, so that it can be restored and resume execution at a later point, and then restoring a different, previously saved, state. [1] This allows multiple processes to share a single central processing unit (CPU), and is an essential feature of a ...

  9. LGBT people and Islam - Wikipedia

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    Rusmir Musić in a chapter "Queer Visions of Islam" said that "Queer Muslims struggle daily to reconcile their sexuality and their faith." Musić began to study in college "whether or not my love for somebody of the same gender disgusts God and whether it will propel me to hell. The answer, for me, is an unequivocal no. Furthermore, Musić ...