The ambiguous character of the axioms as originally formulated by Euclid makes it possible for different commentators to disagree about some of their other implications for the structure of space, such as whether or not it is infinite ( see below ) and what its topology is.

With a large enough ontology as a source of knowledge however, the possible interpretations of ambiguous words in a specific context can be reduced.

The sea mile is an ambiguous unit, with the following possible meanings.

The grammar for natural languages is ambiguous and typical sentences have multiple possible analyses.

Statistical natural-language processing uses stochastic, probabilistic and statistical methods to resolve some of the difficulties discussed above, especially those which arise because longer sentences are highly ambiguous when processed with realistic grammars, yielding thousands or millions of possible analyses.

Another possible meaning is the ambiguous northern use, which refers ironically to small-time troublemakers, usually young, as " likely ", either as an ironic comment on the above sense or as an expression of the sentiment that they are likely to be the cause of any trouble.

Although billed as the final Trek movie for the TNG cast, the ambiguous ending of Star Trek: Nemesis suggested a possible avenue for the return of Data.

In some such cases, the formula gives two possible values for the enclosed angle, leading to an ambiguous case.

When using the law of sines to solve triangles, there exists an ambiguous case where two separate triangles can be constructed ( i. e., there are two different possible solutions to the triangle ).

To avoid possible confusions between electrostatic potential energy and electrochemical potential, it is better for analysis of electric circuits to use the less ambiguous term " voltage difference ", rather than the more ambiguous term " potential difference " or its abbreviation " P. D.

The term identity theft was coined in 1964 however it is not literally possible to steal an identity — less ambiguous terms are identity fraud or impersonation.

It is in this space that literature becomes possible where words take on a strange and mysterious reality of their own, and where also meaning and reference remain allusive and ambiguous.

When top-down parser tries to parse an ambiguous input with respect to an ambiguous CFG, it may need exponential number of steps ( with respect to the length of the input ) to try all alternatives of the CFG in order to produce all possible parse trees, which eventually would require exponential memory space.

As for its position in the nationalist debate, it is deliberately ambiguous so as to appeal to the broadest spectrum possible, from voters who seek full independence from Spain to those who are generally satisfied with the present self-government status.

However, it is possible that M may have both a left and right R module structure, and then calling M Artinian is ambiguous, and it becomes necessary to clarify which module structure is Artinian.

In this situation, the vague wording of the inscription can be seen as the attempt to please all possible readers, being deliberately ambiguous, and acceptable to both pagans and Christians.

When a top-down parser tries to parse an ambiguous input with respect to an ambiguous context-free grammar ( CFG ), it may need an exponential number of steps ( with respect to the length of the input ) to try all alternatives of the CFG in order to produce all possible parse trees.

It consists of ten one-hour films, each of which represents one of the Ten Commandments ( according to their Roman Catholic division ) and explores possible meanings of the commandment — often ambiguous or contradictory — within a fictional story set in modern Poland.

Word-by-word translations usually have comic value, but can be a means to save as much of the original style as possible, especially when the source text is ambiguous or undecipherable to the translator.

The term " cgs units " is ambiguous and therefore to be avoided if possible: cgs contains within it several conflicting sets of electromagnetism units, not just Gaussian units, as described below.

But interestingly the reception of The Merchant of Venice was at best lukewarm ( Marlowe's The Jew of Malta was suggested as a possible alternative ) because it was too ambiguous and not nearly anti-semitic enough for Nazi taste.

" But in the original, the sentence starts not with the name Crantor but with the ambiguous He, and whether this referred to Crantor or to Plato is the subject of considerable debate.

Campbell's dwarf hamster ( Phodopus campbelli ) is the most common — they are also sometimes called " Russian dwarfs "; however, many hamsters are from Russia, so this ambiguous name does not distinguish them from other species appropriately.

Because the terminology is ambiguous (" el " in Yisra ` el ) and inconsistent, and because this being refused to reveal his name, there are varying views as to whether he was a man, an angel, or God.

Numeral systems are sometimes called number systems, but that name is ambiguous, as it could refer to different systems of numbers, such as the system of real numbers, the system of complex numbers, the system of p-adic numbers, etc.

Despite initially holding an ambiguous neutrality, Clement was later forced to name Charles, Archduke of Austria, as King of Spain, since the imperial army had conquered much of northern Italy and was threatening Rome itself ( January 1709 ).

In those two languages, the name flauta is ambiguous, as it can mean any kind of transverse flutes, a recorder, or different other types of wind blown instruments, like the pan flute and some instruments used by the descendants of native peoples of the Central and South Americas ( with varied degrees of influence of European instruments ).

Her name has traditionally been associated with marital faithfulness, and so it was with the Greeks and Romans, but some recent feminist readings offer a more ambiguous interpretation.

The name amphibole ( Greek αμφιβολος-amphibolos meaning ' ambiguous ') was used by René Just Haüy to include tremolite, actinolite, tourmaline and hornblende.

The name ' Nepali ' is ambiguous, as it was originally a pronunciation of Nepal Bhasa, the Tibeto-Burman language of the capital Kathmandu.

Hajduki ( German Heiduk ): the name etymology is ambiguous and is interpreted as either ( 1 ) related to the German word for moorland ( German: die Heide ), or ( 2 ) adopted from the German / Polish / Silesian term for hajduk ( s ) ( Polish ( plural ): Hajduki ; German ( singular ): Heiduck ), which locally meant bandits.

Common names for this genus are centaury, centory, starthistles, knapweeds, centaureas and the more ambiguous " bluets "; a vernacular name used for these plants in parts of England is " loggerheads ".

The name ' crash blossoms ' was proposed for these ambiguous headlines by Dan Bloom and Mike O ' Connell in the Testy Copy Editors discussion group in August 2009 based on a headline " Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms ".

Occasionally, the non-woody species such as the Smooth Herbaceous Greenbrier ( S. herbacea ) are separated as genus Nemexia ; they are commonly known by the rather ambiguous name " carrion flowers ".

None of the above actually officially hold the surname as part of their legal name, owing to the styles that are used for members of the Royal Family, and to the ambiguous wording of the proclamation.

Pro-North people such as Chongryon use the name Kyōwakoku (; " the Republic ") instead, but the ambiguous name is not popular among others.

Other sonnets express the speaker's love for a young man ; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life ; seem to criticise the young man for preferring a rival poet ; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress ; and pun on the poet's name.

The spelling of her first name is ambiguous and both Carrie and Carry are considered correct.

The actual source of the name is ambiguous.

The state is sometimes known as the Kingdom of Shu, though this usage is ambiguous as it was the name of the older Shu state in the area ( ca.

In this depiction, " Hobgoblin " seems the name of one specific creature rather than that of a whole species, though this point is left deliberately ambiguous.

Because Weigall described these consecutive blockings in ambiguous terms, it is unclear whether the secondary wall was found intact or had already been partially dismantled, like the primary wall .< ref name =" bell p. 133 "> Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 133 </ ref >

In fact, the original name for the genre was amargue (" bitterness ," or " bitter music ", or blues music ), until the rather ambiguous ( and mood-neutral ) term bachata became popular.

It is also known as tri-iodomethane, and sometimes also referred to as carbon triiodide ( which is not strictly correct, as this compound also contains hydrogen ) or methyl triiodide ( which is somewhat ambiguous as that name could also refer to the methylated triiodide ion, CH < sub > 3 </ sub > I < sub > 3 </ sub >).