Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Absence of ambiguity; clearness; perspicuity.

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  • noun The quality of being unambiguous.

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  • noun clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity

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Examples

  • She reads my hands, the slant of my shoulders, the unambiguity of my approach.

    In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010

  • It passes the test of simplicity, transparency and unambiguity.

    Oh Oh .... Elizabeth May Says She May Take 'Legal Action' 2009

  • Actually, I want to amend what I said above to say that the word “all” is actually logically necessary for unambiguity.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Distinguishing the Scope of Executive Power From its Distribution: 2007

  • In the second place, their unambiguity is accompanied by the fact that their meaning does not involve reference to anything that exists in the real world or even in the realm constituted by objects of thought or imagination.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • Although he himself never completed his code of laws, Bentham's equation of certainty with unambiguity, reached through analysis of language and precise definition of basic terms, set a pattern taken up later by analytical philosophers.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN 1968

  • Any combination of Properties is allowed, with reasonable constraints on completeness and unambiguity.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • Any combination of Properties is allowed, with reasonable constraints on completeness and unambiguity.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • Any combination of Properties is allowed, with reasonable constraints on completeness and unambiguity.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • France and Italy are dominated by male-female relationships, unambiguity simply sells better.

    cafebabel.com 2009

  • The same level of unambiguity you demand from evolution for the eye.

    California Literary Review 2009

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