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It is used to describe a system or language that can be understood without relying on its external environment. For example, "This grammar is context-free, so it is easier to parse than a context-sensitive grammar."
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context-free
adjective
(Of a grammar) which generates sentences in stages, in such a way that at any intermediate stage, any piece of the sentence is enough to determine the corresponding piece at the next stage; that is, the stagewise transformation at a point does not depend on the rest of the sentence
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I prefer him context-free.
But Twitter is a context-free zone.
Context-free globalization mixes eerily with art-historical homage.
Twitter, he suggested, is "a context-free zone" and should always be handled with care.
It's in Trafalgar Square, which remains strangely context-free for a lot of people.
But other physicians may find the context-free, short-question, short-answer approach problematic.
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Theater is never context free, particularly at Bayreuth, even if Wagner himself sometimes wanted it different.
Two head finite automata accept linear context free languages.
These observations corroborated the notion that DNA binding by TALE repeats is modular and context free.
Capital is context free.
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