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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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The difficulty, however, is that such broad, decontextualed proxies often are treated as units of analysis rather than as heuristic means to disambiguate or discover specific ancestral and environmental contributors to disease or to provide a degree of diversity within the sample frame. how we disambiguate terms to improve the precision of retrieval; 81) Vecellio, like the legislators, codifies, consolidates, disambiguates. |
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