disambiguation
English
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From dis- + ambiguation.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: dis‧am‧big‧u‧a‧tion
Noun
[edit]disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)
- The removal of ambiguity.
- The lexical disambiguation relies on looking ahead to identify possible senses.
- 1827, George Bentham, Outline of a New System of Logic: With a Critical Examination of Dr. Whately's "Elements of Logic, page 88:
- Disambiguation — where it is to fix the sense of an ambiguous term. This operation has been termed distinction by some Logicians, and erroneously reckoned as a species of division.
- (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]removal of ambiguity
Further reading
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Word-sense disambiguation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English disambiguation.
Noun
[edit]disambiguation (plural disambiguations)
Categories:
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ent-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *dwóh₁
- English terms prefixed with dis-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eǵ- (drive)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂m̥bʰí
- English 6-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
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- Scots terms borrowed from English
- Scots terms derived from English
- Scots lemmas
- Scots nouns