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Ambiguity is the type of
meaning in
which a phrase, statement, or
resolution is not
explicitly defined,
making for
several interpretations;
others describe...
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Ambiguity occurs when a
single word or
phrase may be
interpreted in two or more ways. As law
frequently involves lengthy,
complex texts,
ambiguity is common...
- and economics,
ambiguity aversion (also
known as
uncertainty aversion) is a
preference for
known risks over
unknown risks. An
ambiguity-averse individual...
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Ambiguous images or
reversible figures are
visual forms that
create ambiguity by
exploiting graphical similarities and
other properties of
visual system...
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Syntactic ambiguity, also
known as
structural ambiguity, amphiboly, or amphibology, is
characterized by the
potential for a
sentence to
yield multiple...
- Pierre; or, The
Ambiguities is the
seventh book by
American writer Herman Melville,
first published in New York in 1852. The novel,
which uses many conventions...
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Constructive ambiguity is a term
generally credited to
Henry Kissinger, said to be the
foremost exponent of the
negotiating tactic it designates. It refers...
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semantically ambiguous when it can have
multiple meanings. The
higher the
number of
synonyms a word has, the
higher the
degree of
ambiguity. Like other...
- inexactness.
Ambiguity also may
refer to:
Ambiguity (album)
Ambiguity (horse), 20th-cen.
racer Ambiguity (law),
contract law
situation Ambiguous name, botanical...
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admits an
ambiguous grammar by
introducing e.g. a
duplicate rule. A
language that only
admits ambiguous grammars is
called an
inherently ambiguous language...
