Lexical Ambiguity

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Lexical Ambiguity

Definition: Lexical Ambiguity

Lexical Ambiguity

Noun

1. The ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Lexical Ambiguity

Synonym: polysemy (n). (additional references)

Antonym: monosemy (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Lexical Ambiguity

Specialty definitions using "lexical ambiguity": equivocality. (references)

Commercial Usage: Lexical Ambiguity

Domain	Title
Books	On the Consequences of Meaning Selection: Perspectives on Resolving Lexical Ambiguity (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Lexical Ambiguity

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-g-i-i-i-l-l-m-t-u-x-y"
	-4 letters: illegitimacy.
	-5 letters: amicability, gametically, mailability.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Lexical Ambiguity

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 78 69 63 61 6C 41 6D 62 69 67 75 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01111000 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000001 01101101 01100010 01101001 01100111 01110101 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#120 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#65 &#109 &#98 &#105 &#103 &#117 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0078 0069 0063 0061 006C 0041 006D 0062 0069 0067 0075 0069 0074 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

467190756967782357968757387758691

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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