degree of ambiguity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdegreeandambiguity
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degree
noun
uk/dɪˈɡriː/us/dɪˈɡriː/
(an) amount or level ...
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ambiguity
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌæm.bɪˈɡjuː.ə.ti/us/ˌæm.bɪˈɡjuː.ə.t̬i/
(an example of) the fact of something having more than one possible meaning and therefore possibly ...
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(Definition ofdegreeandambiguityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdegree of ambiguity
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The two values will determine thedegreeofambiguityin the search.
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There is also adegreeofambiguityabout the exact position of the skeletons that it might have been useful to see clarified.
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For example, current devices with only four buttons have a highdegreeofambiguity.
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Finally, nominalisations can be multiply ambiguous and most of the cases processed by a hypothetical semantic tagger would manifest somedegreeofambiguity.
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This model works well when thedegreeofambiguityis low.
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Schoolmistresses, usually unmarried, childless, and providing for themselves, could only adopt the ideals of feminine domesticity with a certaindegreeofambiguity.
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Although the subject categories are entirely reasonable and consistent, they are inevitably prone to adegreeofambiguity.
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Their absence suggests adegreeofambiguity, and that worries me.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I recognise that that creates adegreeofambiguity.
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Therefore, there appears to be somedegreeofambiguityabout it.
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Therefore, far from resulting in adegreeofambiguity, it is intended to provide a degree of comprehensiveness.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Therefore, rather than adding greater clarity, the amendment introduces a dangerousdegreeofambiguity.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
This leads to adegreeofambiguityamong people when discussing adult education.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
At the very least, it can not be a manner and form which admits of the slightestdegreeofambiguityto be resolved by interpretation.
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And the ending, with its highdegreeofambiguity, provides little satisfaction.
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This has led to adegreeofambiguityin the term as it relies upon a definition of violence which for different identifiers may mean different things.
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There is adegreeofambiguityamongst practitioners about exactly which parameters in the model are time-dependent or what name to apply to the model in each case.
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Of the six gambles in our experiment, one involved no ambiguity and the remaining five involved different degrees of ambiguity.
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