Disambiguator

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Anything that serves to disambiguate.

    "Those nouns, adjectives and verbs which only occurred with one of the senses were extracted from this list but only nouns were used as additional potential disambiguators in a differential list."

  2. 2
    (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 wordnet
  3. 3
    A program that determines the meaning of a term from the context in which it is used

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"Those nouns, adjectives and verbs which only occurred with one of the senses were extracted from this list but only nouns were used as additional potential disambiguators in a differential list."

Etymology

From disambiguate + -or.

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