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disambiguation

Syllables: dis·am·big·u·a·tion/dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/

disambiguation noun: the removal of ambiguity.

Noun

disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)

  1. The removal of ambiguity.
    • The lexical disambiguation relies on looking ahead to identify possible senses.
    • 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.1827, George Bentham, Outline of a New System of Logic: With a Critical Examination of Dr. Whately's "Elements of Logic, page 88
  2. (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.

disambiguation meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Malay

disambiguation in Tamil

தெளிவாக்கம், பொருள்மயக்கம் நீக்கம்

disambiguation in Tagalog

removal of ambiguity
pagpapalinaw

disambiguation in Arabic

removal of ambiguity
تَوْضِيح tawḍīḥ

disambiguation in Malay

removal of ambiguity
nyahkekaburan
More languagesFewer languages
disambiguation in Persian
ابهامزدایی

Synonyms of disambiguation

Forms of disambiguation

pluraldisambiguations

Origin of disambiguation

From dis- + ambiguation.

Questions about disambiguation

What does disambiguation mean?
Disambiguation means the removal of ambiguity.
What is disambiguation in Tamil?
Disambiguation in Tamil is தெளிவாக்கம், பொருள்மயக்கம் நீக்கம். See Disambiguation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is disambiguation?
Disambiguation is a noun.
How do you pronounce disambiguation?
Disambiguation is pronounced /dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of disambiguation?
The plural of disambiguation is disambiguations.

Words near disambiguation in the dictionary

  1. disamarium
  2. disambiguate
  3. disambiguated
  4. disambiguates
  5. disambiguating
  6. disambiguation
  7. disambiguations
  8. disambiguative
  9. disambiguator
  10. disambiguators
  11. disambiguatory

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disambiguation (page history and authors); disambiguation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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