ambiguity

type of uncertainty of meaning in which several interpretations are plausible
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ambiguity

Summary

ambiguity is a stylistic device[1]. ambiguity draws 356 Wikipedia views per month (stylistic_device category, ranking #20 of 107).[2]

Key Facts

  • ambiguity's image is recorded as Ambigram Ambiguity.png[3].
  • ambiguity's instance of is recorded as stylistic device[4].
  • ambiguity's instance of is recorded as Wikibase reason for deprecated rank[5].
  • ambiguity's instance of is recorded as type of uncertainty[6].
  • ambiguity's GND ID is recorded as 4138525-1[7].
  • ambiguity's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85004148[8].
  • ambiguity's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11945280x[9].
  • ambiguity's subclass of is recorded as uncertainty[10].
  • ambiguity's subclass of is recorded as quality[11].
  • ambiguity's Commons category is recorded as Ambiguity[12].
  • ambiguity's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 52241[13].
  • ambiguity's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02p0qh1[14].
  • ambiguity's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ambiguity[15].
  • ambiguity's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300262506[16].
  • ambiguity's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 401.43[17].
  • ambiguity's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1089412[18].
  • ambiguity's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[19].
  • ambiguity's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/ambiguity[20].
  • ambiguity's BBC Things ID is recorded as 7bdf13bf-1eb0-4a77-baa5-09a878603585[21].
  • ambiguity's different from is recorded as homonymy[22].
  • ambiguity's different from is recorded as polysemy[23].
  • ambiguity's different from is recorded as Uncertainty-reply asymmetry[24].
  • ambiguity's has part is recorded as interpretation[25].
  • ambiguity's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as ambiguity[26].
  • ambiguity's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as ambiguite-linguistique[27].

Why It Matters

ambiguity draws 356 Wikipedia views per month (stylistic_device category, ranking #20 of 107).[2] ambiguity has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] ambiguity is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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