disambiguation

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/

Noun

disambiguation

1. 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.

Synonyms

• clarification, enlightenment, illumination

Translations

• French: désambiguïsation
• German: Disambiguation, Begriffsklärung
• Italian: disambiguazione
• Portuguese: desambiguação, desambiguização (Portugal), desambigüização (Brazil)
• Russian: дизамбигуа́ция
• Spanish: desambiguación

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