Synonym: equivocalness. Similar words: ambiguous, guitar, ambitious, ambivalence, equity, iniquity, antiquity, ingenuity. Meaning: [‚æmbɪ'gjuːɪtɪ] n. 1. an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context 2. unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning.
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91) It is their very complexity and ambiguity of meaning which renders literary classics re-readable and thus classics.
92) This smoothing over of social and historical differences can turn discourse analyses' political implications from productive ambiguity, to complete opacity.
93) There are ways to reduce the problems posed by syntactic ambiguity.
94) Strategic ambiguity has its uses, but a policy of temporizing may eventually fall short.
95) It's a troublesome beast, this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit.
96) The resolution of syntactic ambiguity is one of the tasks to be performed by semantic analysis.
97) The context will prevent this ambiguity from leading to confusion.
98) That is not to say that such ambiguity prevents people from claiming a national identity.
99) There is no ambiguity about the value of these characteristics.
100) Human readers usually have little difficulty with most types of ambiguity, since they can effortlessly apply a variety of contextual information.
101) We see this ambiguity in K C Wheare's now classic book on constitutions.
102) All of these situations produce character-level ambiguity which must be reduced to achieve good recognition performance.
103) It requires motivation towards making new connections as a way of resolving existing ambiguity. Sentencedict.com
104) However for computer processing of natural language ambiguity causes a large problem.
105) Despite these modifications, syntactic ambiguity remains a large problem for generative systems.
106) One is the ambiguity in his argument about the appropriate place of semiotic process in the analysis of work.
107) Think-tanks, sitting uneasily half-way between government and universities, are institutions that embody this ambiguity.
108) Many of the words in the lexicon have a high degree of syntactic ambiguity.
109) These activities are performed to solve problems involving complexity, uncertainty and/or ambiguity that require intelligence and decision-making.
110) The following chapters expand on the practical application of reducing the ambiguity produced from a pattern recogniser.
111) No ambiguity about who was in charge, and who was accountable for what, for Kelly Johnson.
112) Attitude training Attitudes are much more difficult to change than are skills and there can be ambiguity about what constitutes an improvement.
113) The difficulty in actualizing this ambiguity in script form is the reason I initially turned down the job.
114) This ambiguity of language helps to explain why so many interpretations of Wordsworth's philosophy and religion were able to arise.
115) Thus, the ambiguity in the split authority flow creates organizational confusion, and Homeric breakdowns in communication.
116) Using the simple tagset of the current system the degree of syntactic ambiguity found is shown in table 4.4.
117) This causes a complete north-south ambiguity of the map: there is no way to distinguish northern from southern features.
118) What I like is combining something strict with something free - it creates ambiguity and I love ambiguity.
119) Yet, in Dickinson's hands, ambiguity becomes the means of survival.
120) It may be found from testing that this is impossible to achieve due to the ambiguity in previous word positions.
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