Ambiguity

We use simple evocative words to tag paragraphs for quick access to richly complicated ideas. This only works when we accept some ambiguity for how we use single words and make some effort to apply words consistently within the corpus we are tagging.

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ambiguity | BrE ˌambɪˈɡjuːɪti, AmE ˌæmbəˈɡjuədi | noun Zweideutigkeit (Fem.); Doppelsinnigkeit (Fem.) (formal); (having several meanings) Mehrdeutigkeit (Fem.); Ambiguität (Fem.) (Linguistics)