disambiguate

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ ambiguate.

Pronunciation

Verb

disambiguate (third-person singular simple present disambiguates, present participle disambiguating, simple past and past participle disambiguated)

  1. To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.
  2. (linguistics) To distinguish one word or lexical unit (from a different one which has a similar form).
    • 1967, Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, volume 43, page 619:
      When necessary, the Greek spelling is disambiguated by an appended phonetic transcription.
    • 2016, John Simpson, The Word Detective, Little, Brown, published 2016, page 281:
      The dictionary's traditional “readers” have largely survived this transition, too. They find earlier and better uses of terms which computers can't (in the jargon) disambiguate—distinguish from other similar uses.

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

disambiguate

  1. inflection of disambiguare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

disambiguate f pl

  1. feminine plural of disambiguato
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