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What (who) is ambiguity - definition

TYPE OF UNCERTAINTY OF MEANING IN WHICH SEVERAL INTERPRETATIONS ARE PLAUSIBLE
Ambiguous; Disambigs; Unambiguous; Ambiguation; Ambiguate; Ambiguities; Ambiguousness; Lexical ambiguity; Ambiguity (concept); Ambiguous mathematical notation; Ambigous
  • Caterpillar]] for [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and chin, or as being the head end of an actual [[caterpillar]], with the first two right "true" legs visible.<ref>"And do you see its long nose and chin? At least, they ''look'' exactly like a nose and chin, that is don't they? But they really ''are'' two of its legs. You know a Caterpillar has got ''quantities'' of legs: you can see more of them, further down." Carroll, Lewis. ''The Nursery "Alice"''. Dover Publications (1966), p 27.</ref>
  • Which is wet: the food, or the cat?
  • This image can be interpreted three ways: as the letters "K B", as the mathematical inequality "1 < 13", or as the letters "''V'' D" with their mirror image.<ref name="protein_ambig" />
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  • Structural analysis of an ambiguous Spanish sentence:<br /> '''Pepe vio a Pablo enfurecido'''<br />Interpretation 1: When Pepe was angry, then he saw Pablo<br />Interpretation 2: Pepe saw that Pablo was angry.<br />Here, the syntactic tree in figure represents interpretation 2.

ambiguity         
(ambiguities)
If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
There is considerable ambiguity about what this part of the agreement actually means.
N-VAR
ambiguity         
n.
1.
Doubtfulness, dubiousness, doubt, uncertainty or equivocalness (as respects the meaning of a term), indefiniteness, vagueness, obscurity, amphiboly.
2.
Ambiguous, expression, double meaning, equivoke (or equivoque), double entendre.
ambiguity         
[amb?'gju:?ti]
¦ noun (plural ambiguities) the quality of being ambiguous or open to more than one interpretation.

Wikipedia

Ambiguity

Ambiguity is the type of meaning in which a phrase, statement or resolution is not explicitly defined, making several interpretations plausible. A common aspect of ambiguity is uncertainty. It is thus an attribute of any idea or statement whose intended meaning cannot be definitively resolved, according to a rule or process with a finite number of steps. (The ambi- part of the term reflects an idea of "two," as in "two meanings.")

The concept of ambiguity is generally contrasted with vagueness. In ambiguity, specific and distinct interpretations are permitted (although some may not be immediately obvious), whereas with information that is vague, it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

Examples of use of ambiguity
1. Iran‘s choice of nuclear ambiguity will be a political challenge for the international nuclear system, but a far greater challenge to Israel, which granted legitimacy to such ambiguity.
2. McKellen‘s very public persona deepens the ambiguity of his performance.
3. On Thursday, there was never any ambiguity that Mr.
4. Raveendran, Special to Gulf News Ambiguity is bad for business.
5. There was always an ambiguity about this brilliant phrase.