Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

context-sensitive grammar

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables: con-tex-t-sen-si-tive -gram-mar
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

8

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A formal grammar in which the left-hand sides and right-hand sides of any production rules may be surrounded by a context of terminal and nonterminal symbols.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

context-sensitive grammars (plural)

Questions

What does context-sensitive grammar mean?: A formal grammar in which the left-hand sides and right-hand sides of any production rules may be surrounded by a context of terminal and nonterminal symbols.

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