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DISAMBIGUATION
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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)