ambiguity
11Ambiguity — Sir John Tenniel s illustration of the Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male s face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being… …
12ambiguity — /aembsgyuwatiy/ Doubtfulness; doubleness of meaning. Duplicity, indistinctness, or uncertainty of meaning of an expression used in a written instrument. Want of clearness or definiteness; difficult to comprehend or distinguish; of doubtful import …
13ambiguity — /aembsgyuwatiy/ Doubtfulness; doubleness of meaning. Duplicity, indistinctness, or uncertainty of meaning of an expression used in a written instrument. Want of clearness or definiteness; difficult to comprehend or distinguish; of doubtful import …
14ambiguity — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ certain, possible, potential ▪ The poem contains a certain ambiguity. ▪ moral, sexual ▪ inherent …
15ambiguity — n. 1) to clear up, remove an ambiguity; to avoid ambiguity 2) an ambiguity about, concerning * * * [ˌæmbɪ gjuːɪtɪ] concerning remove an ambiguity to avoid ambiguity an ambiguity about to clear up …
16ambiguity — Having more than one meaning. The simplest case is lexical ambiguity, where a single term has two meanings. A sentence or grammatically complex construction can be ambiguous without any of the words in it being so, because of structural ambiguity …
17ambiguity — /am bi gyooh i tee/, n., pl. ambiguities. 1. doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner. 2. an unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning, etc.: a contract free of… …
18ambiguity — [[t]æ̱mbɪgju͟ːɪti[/t]] ambiguities 1) N VAR If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way. There is considerable ambiguity about what this part of the… …
19ambiguity */ — UK [ˌæmbɪˈɡjuːətɪ] / US [ˌæmbɪˈɡjuətɪ] noun Word forms ambiguity : singular ambiguity plural ambiguities 1) a) [countable] something that is not clear because it has more than one possible meaning There seem to be some ambiguities in the rules.… …
20ambiguity — am|bi|gu|i|ty [ˌæmbıˈgju:ıti] n plural ambiguities [U and C] the state of being unclear, confusing, or not certain, or things that produce this effect ambiguity in ▪ There was an element of ambiguity in the president s reply. ▪ legal ambiguities …
