disambiguation

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ ambiguation.

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) Malay: nyahkekaburan 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) Tagalog: pagpapalinaw (tl) Turkish: anlam ayrımı (tr)

Further reading

• Word-sense disambiguation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Scots

Etymology

From English disambiguation.

Noun

disambiguation (plural disambiguations)

1. Disambiguation.