The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

In English, the term Arabic numerals can be ambiguous.

Though the origin is ambiguous, the draughtsman of the charter issued by Æthelstan used the term in a way that can only mean ' wide ruler '.

Biotechnology ( see also relatedly bioengineering ) can be a somewhat ambiguous term, sometimes loosely used interchangeably with BME in general ; however, it more typically denotes specific products which use " biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof.

Currently we all use the term consciousness in many different and often ambiguous ways.

The meaning of " free market " has varied over time and between economists, the ambiguous term " free " facilitating a diversity of uses.

Ostdeutschland ( an ambiguous term meaning simultaneously East or Eastern Germany ) was not commonly used in East or West German common parlance to refer to the German Democratic Republic, because Ostdeutschland usually referred to the former eastern territories of Germany.

A minority still stubbornly use the term in both original senses despite the controversy, leaving context to clarify ( or leave ambiguous ) which meaning is intended.

Instead, Godfrey himself seems to have used the more ambiguous term princeps, or simply retained his title of dux from Lower Lorraine.

The ambiguous term key recovery is applied to both types of systems.

In 1998, the term open source was suggested as a substitute to free software because it avoided the ambiguous double-meaning of ‘ free ’ in English and was not as value-laden as the term free software.

The term remains ambiguous and it can follow any one of the following common definitions:

As critics have established, the term ' Moor ' referred to dark-skinned people in general, used interchangeably with similarly ambiguous terms as ' African ', ' Ethiopian ', ' Negro ', and even ' Indian ' to designate a figure from Africa ( or beyond ).

When applied to polymers, the term crystalline has a somewhat ambiguous usage.

It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube ( CRT ) and flat panel or projection displays using fixed-element arrays.

In biology the term " race " is used with caution because it can be ambiguous.

To a minority of Christians, nontrinitarians, the term " Son of God ", applied to Jesus in the New Testament, is accepted, while the non-biblical but less ambiguous " God the Son " is not.

When a term is ambiguous, a “ scope note ” can be added to ensure consistency, and give direction on how to interpret the term.

Theory of value is an ambiguous term, and may mean:

The term " cypherpunk " is mildly ambiguous.

* The Baltic region, an ambiguous term referring to the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea

The ambiguous term " anti-psychiatry " came to be associated with these more radical trends, but there was debate over whether it was a new phenomenon, whom it best described, and whether it constituted a genuinely singular movement.

() The Tribe of Gad was allocated a region to the east of the River Jordan, though the exact location is ambiguous.

In 2008, the Third Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Party () initiated a new round of land privatization reforms The resolution reached on the rural land reform, in simplified Chinese can be found at < http :// news. xinhuanet. com / newscenter / 2008-10 / 19 / content_10218932_1. htm >.</ ref >, but these measures were ultimately quite limited, for the transfer and trading of land remains ambiguous and not " officially endorsed and encouraged ".

** () Acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

The other two descriptions are ambiguous as it is unclear whether they refer to the arms as leading or being dragged or whether their bending is viewed outward or inward.

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

* Suceso, " event ", is wrongly used to denote " success ", leading to expressions such as fue todo un suceso, " it was a complete success " ( although this can be ambiguous ; interpreted in Spanish this means " it was a big event ", which sometimes means about the same anyway ).

Much of the distribution of power has been ambiguous, leading to disputes that have been decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and, after 1949, the Supreme Court of Canada.

The ambiguous political and social position of the Banyamulenge has been a point of contention in the province, in the wake of incursion by fleeing Interahamwe forces responsible for the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis into the Kivu region after the liberation of neighboring Rwanda by the Tutsi-led RPF, leading to the Banyamulenge playing a key role in the run-up to the First Congo War in 1996-7 and Second Congo War of 1998-2003.

Similarly, the sex of the baby Jamie in Malcolm in the Middle was purposely kept ambiguous when first introduced at the end of the show's fourth season leading to speculation that it would remain unknown.

# Japanese psychology, influenced by the language, is defined by a particular cast of that conduce to a unique form of, in which clearly defined boundaries between self and other are ambiguous or fluid, leading to a psychomental and social ideal of the.

The ambiguous political and social position of the Banyamulenge has been a point of contention in the province, leading to the Banyamulenge playing a key role in the run-up to the First Congo War in 1996-7 and Second Congo War of 1998-2003.

The increased demand for exports would have led to new structures of production, encouraging specialisation and division of labour, leading to a sometimes ambiguous distinction between painter and potter.

When critical information is missing ( e. g. omitting leading or trailing zeroes without properly documenting if and which zeroes are omitted ) the file is ambiguous.

This same chorale appears in a slightly more dissonant voicing at the end of the fifth movement, leading the final chord which ends on an ambiguous C dominant / minor seventh chord.

When it first appeared, The Lower Depths was criticized for its pessimism and ambiguous ethical message.

This is a notably controversial topic of debate for obvious ethical and political reasons, and is made difficult by the ambiguous language employed by Hitler and the Nazis when talking about the Volksgemeinschaft.

The concept of zero ( which was also called " cipher "), which we all now think of as natural, was alien to medieval Europe, so confusing and ambiguous to common Europeans that in arguments people would say " talk clearly and not so far fetched as a cipher ".

The widely used English language concept of or is often ambiguous between these two meanings, but the difference is pivotal in evaluating disjunctive arguments.

Many discussions of " classes " in the 19th century and earlier are really referring to sets, or perhaps to a more ambiguous concept.

Being " R-like " is an elusive and ambiguous concept phonetically and the same sounds that function as rhotics in some systems may pattern with fricatives, semivowels or even stops in others — for example, " tt " in American English " better " is often pronounced as alveolar tap, a rhotic consonant in many other languages.

The Sufis within these two sects are much more ambiguous about its use as seen in the concept of " Barakah ".

Implicit in this list of hankie color codes is the concept of right / left polarity, left as usual indicating the top, dominant, or active partner, right the bottom, submissive, or passive partner — this can, however, be ambiguous for some acts.

For a concept so ambiguous and difficult to define, stress nevertheless plays an obvious and predominant role in the everyday lives of humans and nature alike.

The concept of the folly is highly ambiguous and it has been suggested that the definition of a folly " lies in the eyes of the beholder ". At best, some general guidelines can be produced, all of which have exceptions.

The concept still remains ambiguous, having originated from simpler definitions which initially emphasised the freedom from military threat and political coercion to later increase in sophistication and include other forms of non-military security as suited the circumstances of the time.

The translation of " nut " in certain languages frequently requires paraphrases as the concept is ambiguous.

The concept of insurgencies is of an ambiguous nature.

The authors note that before the crisis, the concept remained " ambiguous, nascent, and unproven " and that the United States had not assumed a leadership role with respect to the new order.

* 1992 consensus: the governments of mainland China ( headquartered in Beijing ) and Taiwan ( in Taipei ) formed a consensus in 1992 that both sides recognize that there is one China, but remain ambiguous on the content of that concept, such as whether China here means Republic of China or People's Republic of China.

" During " The Great Wars ," an ambiguous concept which is largely ignored in later continuities, a hole was opened in the dimensional wall and Skeletor was thrown from his world into Eternia.

Whatever definition of " clearing the neighbourhood " is ultimately accepted by the IAU, it is still an ambiguous concept.

The case is slightly more ambiguous for natural features, depending on how exactly ' place ' is defined, and what exactly the concept of a ' place ' is used for.

Who popularized or even invented the term Concept art in reference to preproduction design is perhaps ambiguous, but it may have come about as part of automotive design for concept cars or as part of the animation industry.

Initially the group was ambiguous to democracy but under the chairmanship of Vilho Helanen it came to oppose the concept.

The original concept of Eternia is as a world with a barbaric civilization, recovering from an ambiguous Great War, that has wiped out advanced civilizations, but has left behind advanced technology, vehicles and machinery, as well as powerful magic.

In this case, though the example is very interesting, we must also understand that Apple as a company is perhaps one of the most closed and hermetic company, so though the concept is useful to explain how to understand products today, it is also quite ambiguous how companies really deploy them.

This is unlike Dick's later fiction, in which the concept of a fixed ' reality ' became increasingly ambiguous.

Monnet crossed out the word supranational -- the key concept used by Schuman to describe the new form of European democracy — and replaced it with the ambiguous word federation.