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ambiguous name

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ambiguous name [am′big·yə·wəs ′nām]
(computer science)
A name of a file or other item which is only partially specified; it is useful in conducting a search of all the items to which it might apply.


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In fact, the renaming of an ambiguous name to a more purposeful name may complicate the understanding of the code where other variables of the same name are affected.
Moreover, two, ambiguous names prompt the consumers to seek out what the manufacturers meant when they gave them to the colors.
There are plenty of companies out there with interesting, if ambiguous names.
 
 
 
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