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ambiguity [‚am·bə′gyü·əd·ē] (electronics) The condition in which a synchro system or servosystem seeks more than one null position. (navigation) The condition in which navigation coordinates derived from a navigational instrument define more than one point, direction, line of position, or surface of position. Ambiguity Delphic oracle ultimate authority in ancient Greece; often speaks in ambiguous terms. [Gk. Hist.: Leach, 305] pledge to husband has double meaning. [Arth. Legend: Tristan] epithet of Apollo, meaning “ambiguous” in reference to his practically uninterpretable oracles. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmer-man, 26] different opinion for every one of his offices. [Br. Opera: The Mikado, Magill I, 591–592] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It is, needless to say, a zone of
sexual ambiguousness, but more importantly, it is a term that gave
Barthes room to figure forth his entropic desire that noisy
meaningfulness cease its hectoring and diminuendo back into a whisper of
the banal and the imprecise and the uninterpretable. The ambiguousness in the use of the word operation is apparent from
the terms operational functions and operations of war. Though the
two women's racial ambiguousness takes on different forms relative
to the white men in their lives (Clare lies to her husband and
"passes" for white while Pan lives in Chinatown as a biracial
woman), both women's surroundings color the men's perceptions
of them. |
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