disambiguation

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: dis‧am‧big‧u‧a‧tion

Noun

disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)

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.

2. (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.

Synonyms

• clarification, enlightenment, illumination

Translations

removal of ambiguity

• Arabic: تَوْضِيح m (tawḍīḥ)
• Catalan: desambiguació (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解疑 (zh) (jiěyí), 澄清 (zh) (chéngqīng)

• Czech: zjednoznačnění n, desambiguace (cs) f
• Dutch: desambiguatie
• Estonian: ühestamine
• Finnish: selventäminen (fi), täsmentäminen (fi), yksiselitteistäminen
• French: désambiguïsation (fr), homonymie (fr) f
• Georgian: გაურკვევლობის გადაწყვეტა (gaurḳvevlobis gadac̣q̇veṭa), გაურკვევლობის აღმოფხვრა (gaurḳvevlobis aɣmopxvra), ორაზროვნების გაუქმება (orazrovnebis gaukmeba), ორაზროვნების მოხსნა (orazrovnebis moxsna), ორაზროვნების დაზუსტება (orazrovnebis dazusṭeba), ორაზროვნების აღმოფხვრა (orazrovnebis aɣmopxvra), არაერთმნიშვნელობის აღმოფხვრა (araertmnišvnelobis aɣmopxvra)
• German: Disambiguation, Begriffsklärung
• Greek: αποσαφήνιση (el) f (aposafínisi)
• Hungarian: egyértelműsítés
• Italian: disambiguazione (it)
• Japanese: 曖昧さ回避 (ja) (aimaisa kaihi)
• Navajo: ałtsʼáʼáztiin
• Persian: ابهام‌زدایی (fa)
• Polish: ujednoznacznienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: desambiguação (pt), desambiguização
• Romanian: dezambiguizare
• Russian: дизамбигуа́ция (ru) f (dizambiguácija), различение (ru) f (različenije)
• Scots: disambiguation
• Spanish: desambiguación (es)
• Turkish: anlam ayrımı (tr)

Further reading

• Word-sense disambiguation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Scots

Etymology

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Noun

disambiguation (plural disambiguations)

1. Disambiguation.