disambiguation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: dis‧am‧big‧u‧a‧tion

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.

• clarification, enlightenment, illumination

• Word-sense disambiguation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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disambiguation (plural disambiguations)

1. Disambiguation.