Why is Context used in this piece of code?

public class ImageAdapter extends 开发者_如何学CBaseAdapter {
    private Context mContext;

    public ImageAdapter(Context c) {
        mContext = c;
    }

Here in this code,what does this Context means and what is the purpose of using this?

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Context is an abstract Class that is used to access system resources like the network connection, or the file system or a database. In this case I would asume that the context is saved in the Adapter to load Images later in the progress.