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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ambiguity \Am`bi*gu"i*ty\, n.; pl {Ambiguities}. [L.
ambiguitas fr ambiguus: cf F. ambiguit['e].]
The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or
uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of
language, arising from its admitting of more than one
meaning; an equivocal word or expression.
No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be
pursued. --I. Taylor.
The words are of single signification, without any
ambiguity. --South.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ambiguity
n 1: an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its
context
2: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning [syn:
{equivocalness}] [ant: {unambiguity}, {unambiguity}]
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