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DISAMBIGUATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they disambiguate ... he / she / it disambiguates
Past simple: disambiguated
Past participle: disambiguated
-ing form: disambiguating
Sense 1
Meaning:
State unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
Example:
Can you disambiguate this statement?
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "disambiguate" is one way to...):
clarify; clear up; elucidate (make clear and (more) comprehensible)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
disambiguation (clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity)
disambiguator ((computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used)
