MEANING
The process of determining or specifying which of several possible meanings is intended.
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Words that belong together
- word-sense disambiguation
- contextual disambiguation
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The surrounding paragraph supplied the needed disambiguation.
The editor’s revision enabled contextual disambiguation of the pronoun.
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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