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DISAMBIGUATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disambiguate mean? 

DISAMBIGUATE (verb)
  The verb DISAMBIGUATE has 1 sense:

1. state unambiguously or remove ambiguities fromplay

  Familiarity information: DISAMBIGUATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISAMBIGUATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they disambiguate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it disambiguates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: disambiguated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: disambiguated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: disambiguating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

State unambiguously or remove ambiguities from

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Can you disambiguate this statement?

Hypernyms (to "disambiguate" is one way to...):

clarify; clear up; elucidate (make clear and (more) comprehensible)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

disambiguation (clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity)

disambiguator ((computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used)


 Context examples 


Therefore the term "study protocol" was chosen to disambiguate it from other protocols.

(Clinical Study Protocol, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

NOTE(S): The term Amendment needs to be disambiguated since it sometimes refers to the amended version of the protocol (BRIDG's StudyProtocolDocumentVersion) and other times refers to the summary of changes (BRIDG's AmendmentChangeSummary) that are applied to a protocol to create a new version of the protocol.

(Amendment Change Summary Version Document, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)



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