Word Finder - ambiguity

definition

Something, particularly words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context.

example

His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.

definition

The state of being ambiguous.

Their actions showed moral ambiguity.

The ambiguity begins to disappear as more explanations are made.

This statement has a lot of ambiguity.

She chose her clothing carefully to avoid gender ambiguity.

The ambiguity cannot be cured.

They found possible ambiguity in interpretation.

Where the words are not clear, other factors can be taken into account to resolve the ambiguity.

Speakers of English were asked to judge theambiguity of the grammar.

This should clarify any ambiguity regarding the practices undertaken.

He is in charge of ambiguity resolution.

There were come cases of ambiguity in the definition and there have been wide variations in practice.

On the other hand, the ambiguity may be quite unintentional.

The subject is still replete with ambiguity and uncertainty.

Such attempts are necessary in a time of transition, but they involve a measure of obscurity and ambiguity.

The ambiguity in his criterion, however, seems entirely to have escaped Hume's attention.

In order that there might be the ambiguity as to what divinity was meant, it became usual, insi Ipeaking of any local deity, to specify the place of which he rea s lord.

One drawback of Thomsen's notation is that the nature of the final system is not indicated, although this defect in general causes no ambiguity.

The ambiguity lies in the multifold purpose of the activities.

What ambiguity they possess arises from the ambiguity of morality itself.

Uniform characteristics are the fecundity, ambiguity, relativity and transmissibility of its activity.

The clue's deliberate ambiguity is helped by the exact nature of the last letter change being left undefined.

Accurate optical astrometry would locate these peaks relative to the nucleus as defined by the radio core, and so resolve this ambiguity.

This ambiguity can be resolved by transforming the measured color co-ordinates to compensate for the thickness of the papillary dermis.

He was a meticulous draftsman; his characters are well-defined and precise so that little ambiguity is encountered in the deciphering process.

The language which drives a computer is so systematic that the slightest ambiguity, even a missing comma, cannot be tolerated.

With this notation the values of x and y may be expressed in the forms x q q /N q ', gg /Nq', which are free from ambiguity, since scalars are commutative with quaternions.

It is even said by some who have examined the original (vide infra) that the text and alterations show a progressively freethinking attitude, side by side with a growing tendency to conceal it by ambiguity and innuendo.

The main girder is then virtually a continuous girder hinged at the points of contrary flexure, so that no ambiguity can arise as to the stresses.

In any case the position of the line of pressures is confined at the lead articulations within very narrow limits, and ambiguity as to the stresses is greatly diminished.

In each case 6 is prefixed whenever there is any chance of ambiguity.

The One Being was also named by him vioraro.p - an expression purposely chosen to obviate ambiguity.

Great ambiguity is the natural result of this procedure.

Factors that induce involuntary automaticity include ambiguity, stress and fatigue, and lack of clear roles and responsibilities.

The two sources of transaction costs identified are performance ambiguity and goal congruence.

They are impossible to fully decipher; their ambiguity perhaps is a reminder of one's ephemerality.

One solution to this ambiguity is to use sequential denotations with lower case letters.

This is expressed especially clearly in the ambiguity problems of the consistent histories formalism.

This new body of work, with its highly-charged poetic imagery, has a deliberate ambiguity which enriches it no end.

Keen to avoid moral hazard, many authorities have traditionally declined to discuss their policy stance on the grounds of " constructive ambiguity " .

We use cross-modal priming in three experiments to examine the resolution of this ambiguity in speech perception.

Maybury's inclusion of an unlikely romantic subplot, however, lends ambiguity to an otherwise bleak story.

The boundary line between one drainage area and others is rightly termed the watershed, but on account of the ambiguity which has been tolerated it is better to call it water-parting or, as in America, divide.

Their terms, however,could not fail to give rise to some ambiguity, and their validity was especially contested on the ground that the council was not ecumenical, since it represented at that date the obedience of only one of three rival popes.

The old ambiguity attaching to the interpretation of earlier treaties, however, remained, and in April 1899 the question by an agreement between the two states was referred to the arbitration of the president of the Swiss confederation..

The word " benzine " is sometimes used in commerce for the coal-tar product, but also for the light petroleum better known as petroleum-benzine; a similar ambiguity is presented by the word " benzoline," which is applied to the same substances as the word " benzine."

On the other hand, the ambiguity may be quite unintentional, for the Hebrew writers were notoriously lacking in the true historical sense, which shows itself in a full appreciation of the value of chronology.

Some ambiguity is also occasioned by the want of uniformity in the method of numbering the preceding years.

Yet the divergent uses that have been made of it witness to the ambiguity of his statement which is traceable to the fact that Kant was himself too deeply rooted in the thought of his predecessors and carried with him too much of their spirit to be able entirely to free himself from their assumptions and abstractions.

Yet the depth and extent of the dissatisfaction are sufficient evidence that the most recent developments are not free from ambiguity on this vital issue.

This suggests the great ambiguity both in Roman Catholic and Protestant writers of the 17th century as to the relation between articles " and " dogmas."