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disambiguator

UK/ˌdɪ.samˈbɪɡ.juːeɪt.ə/

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Australia/ˌdɪs.amˈbɪɡ.juːeɪt.ə/

disambiguator noun: anything that serves to disambiguate.

Noun

disambiguator (plural disambiguators)

  1. Anything that serves to disambiguate.
    • Those nouns, adjectives and verbs which only occurred with one of the senses were extracted from this list but only nouns were used as additional potential disambiguators in a differential list.1998, Edda Weigand, Contrastive Lexical Semantics, page 257
  2. A program that determines the meaning of a term from the context in which it is used

Forms of disambiguator

pluraldisambiguators

Origin of disambiguator

From disambiguate + -or.

Questions about disambiguator

What does disambiguator mean?
Disambiguator means anything that serves to disambiguate.
What part of speech is disambiguator?
Disambiguator is a noun.
How do you pronounce disambiguator?
Disambiguator is pronounced /ˌdɪ.samˈbɪɡ.juːeɪt.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of disambiguator?
The plural of disambiguator is disambiguators.

Words near disambiguator in the dictionary

  1. disambiguates
  2. disambiguating
  3. disambiguation
  4. disambiguations
  5. disambiguative
  6. disambiguator
  7. disambiguators
  8. disambiguatory
  9. disambiguity
  10. disambulatories
  11. disambulatory

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