DISAMBIGUATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("disambiguation" is a kind of...):

clarification; elucidation; illumination (an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disambiguation"):

lexical disambiguation (disambiguation of the sense of a polysemantic word)

Derivation:

disambiguate (state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from)

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