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  • 71lexical ambiguity — noun the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings • Syn: ↑polysemy • Ant: ↑monosemy (for: ↑polysemy) • Derivationally related forms: ↑polysem …

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  • 72patent ambiguity — noun : an ambiguity in a legal document arising from the words themselves opposed to latent ambiguity * * * Law. uncertainty of meaning created by the obscure or ambiguous language appearing on the face of a written instrument …

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  • 73Gribov ambiguity — In gauge theory, especially non abelian gauge theories, we often encounter global problems when gauge fixing. Gauge fixing means choosing a representative from each gauge orbit. The space of representatives is a submanifold and represents the… …

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  • 74The Ethics of Ambiguity — (French title: Pour une morale de l ambiguïté ) is Simone de Beauvoir s second major essay, nearly twice as long as her first, Pyrrhus and Cineas . After giving a lecture in 1945, she found herself claiming that it was possible to base an ethic… …

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  • 75AAO (ambiguity) — The abbreviation AAO provides an instance of ambiguity or, at least some confusion, since it stands for multiple health related organizations including the American Association of Ophthalmology, American Association of Orthodontists, and American …

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  • 76Nuclear ambiguity — can mean: neither confirming nor denying possession of nuclear weapons, see Nuclear weapons and Israel problem that launching an attack with a conventional weapon can be mistaken for a nuclear attack, see Prompt Global Strike This disambiguation… …

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  • 77systematic ambiguity — 1 The phenomenon noticed by Aristotle whereby terms may apply in different, yet associated, ways, to different categories of thing: a place may be cheerful, and so may a person. 2 In the theory of types Russell had to postulate a systematic… …

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  • 78act–object ambiguity — act object ambiguity …

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  • 79erasure of ambiguity — index clarification Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 80free from ambiguity — index clarify Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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