disambiguating

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. To distinguish one word or lexical unit (from a different one which has a similar form).
   • When necessary, the Greek spelling is disambiguated by an appended phonetic transcription.1967, Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, volume 43, page 619