Led by highly respected elder statesmen Koo Chen-fu and Wang Daohan, the two organizations began a series of talks that culminated in the 1992 meetings, which, together with subsequent correspondence, established the 1992 Consensus, under which both sides agreed to deliberate ambiguity on questions of sovereignty, in order to engage on operational questions affecting both sides.

Led by highly respected elder statesmen Koo Chen-fu and Wang Daohan, the two organizations began a series of talks that culminated in the 1992 meetings, which, together with subsequent correspondence, established the 1992 Consensus, under which both sides agreed to deliberate ambiguity on questions of sovereignty, in order to engage on operational questions affecting both sides.

Warren himself describes the useful ambiguity of abstraction ( Hill 1998 )

With the aim of avoiding ambiguity the International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC ) adopted new binary prefixes in 1998 ( IEC 80000-13: 2008 formerly subclauses 3. 8 and 3. 9 of IEC 60027-2: 2005 ) Each binary prefix is formed from the first syllable of the decimal prefix with the similar value, and the syllable " bi ".

Syntactic ambiguity arises when a phrase can be parsed in only one way.

Semantic ambiguity arises when a word or concept has an inherently diffuse meaning based on widespread or informal usage.

The evaluation order does not affect the value of such expressions, and it can be shown that the same holds for expressions containing any number of operations .< ref > Thus, when is associative, the evaluation order can be left unspecified without causing ambiguity, by omitting the parentheses and writing simply:

When numbers are used to represent months, a significant amount of confusion can arise from the ambiguity of a date order ; especially when the numbers representing the day, month or year are low, it can be impossible to tell which order is being used.

The discoverers of the circumbinary planet around Kepler-16 followed Hessman et al. s proposed naming scheme when naming the body Kepler-16 ( AB )- b, or simply Kepler-16b when there is no ambiguity.

There are, however, some fully automatic handguns ( often referred to as machine pistols ) so, to avoid such ambiguity and confusion, " semi-automatic ", " autoloader " or " self-loading " are preferred when referring to a firearm that fires only one shot per trigger pull.

As long as we can measure the position of each particle with infinite precision ( even when the particles collide ), there would be no ambiguity about which particle is which.

However, a second definition and usage has historically been in practice in many fields of computer science and information technology, which defines the prefix kilo when used with byte or bit units of data as 1024 ( 2 < sup > 10 </ sup >); this is due to the mathematical coincidence that Thus, in these fields 1 kilobyte is equal to 1 kibibyte, a new unit standardized as part of the binary prefixes to resolve the ambiguity.

The " diamond problem " ( sometimes referred to as the " deadly diamond of death ") is an ambiguity that arises when two classes B and C inherit from A, and class D inherits from both B and C. If D calls a method defined in A ( and does not override the method ), and B and C have overridden that method differently, then from which class does it inherit: B, or C?

There is not wide agreement regarding the correctness of using zero as an ordinal ( nor regarding use of the term zeroth ) as it creates ambiguity for all subsequent elements of the sequence when lacking context.

However, in the portion he used in the opening — and when the full scene plays out later — Mendes used the score and a reaction shot of Ricky to leave a lingering ambiguity as to his guilt.

In some cases, expatriate niches do set up permanently in target countries but whether this can be rightly called colonization is debatable precisely because of the ambiguity of intentions behind the movement and settling of expatriates and in many cases ( especially when not gathered into a niche per se ) expatriates do not necessarily seek to " expand their native civilization ", but rather to integrate into the population of the new civilization.

Odonata enthusiasts avoid ambiguity by using the term true dragonfly, or simply Anisopteran, when referring to just the Anisoptera.

Many American style guides explicitly permit periods and commas outside the quotation marks when the presence of the punctuation mark inside the quotation marks will lead to ambiguity, such as when describing keyboard input:

" This ambiguity was finally settled in the summer of 1986 when the club officially decided on the one-word version based on the spelling found in the original franchise documents.

The use of the Ashley reference numbers for these inconsistently named hitches can eliminate ambiguity when required.

In Alaska, given the ambiguity surrounding the usage of continental, the term " continental United States " is almost unheard of when referring to the contiguous 48 states.

Subjects are mentioned when a topic is introduced, or in situations where an ambiguity might result from their omission.

This led other AI researchers to excessive optimism which was soon lost when later systems attempted to deal with more realistic situations with real-world ambiguity and complexity.

Concentrating on two tonal areas to musically depict ambiguity and conflict in the text became a hallmark of his style, resolving only when appropriate to the meaning of the song.

The ambiguity was ended in the General Conference of April 1904, when President Joseph F. Smith issued the " Second Manifesto ", an emphatic declaration that prohibited plural marriage and proclaimed that offenders would be subject to church discipline.

There are two zeroes, + 0 ( positive zero ) and − 0 ( negative zero ) and this removes any ambiguity when dividing.

Benito Mussolini promoted ambiguity about fascism's positions in order to rally as many people to it as possible, saying fascists can be " aristocrats or democrats, revolutionaries and reactionaries, proletarians and anti-proletarians, pacifists and anti-pacifists.

To illustrate the ambiguity: classical economists such as Adam Smith believed that an economy should be free of monopoly rents, while proponents of laissez faire believe that people should be free to form monopolies.

Recently, the U. S. Census Bureau has introduced the " Asian-Indian " category to avoid ambiguity for descendants of people from India.

It can be preferred because of its ambiguity, which allows " queer "- identifying people to avoid the sometimes strict boundaries that surround other labels.

As a result of this ambiguity, people who are not Han Chinese but were born in China and subsequently left, including refugees, are not necessarily eligible for the same preferential treatment.

Walter Pohl highlights the dynamic nature of group identity, proposing that during the Migration Period people could live in circumstances of " ethnic ambiguity ".

There is some ambiguity of if the name actually derived from William Byrne since there were people with the surname " Burns " living in the area ( a Scottish variant ).

This leaves areas of ambiguity that could criminalize some people for simple mistakes, such as accidental hiding of a small item or forgetting to pay.

However, the term constitutes ambiguity for people who like old dancing music.

The very ambiguity of their work and its assessment leads to the feeling on the part of the managers Jackall interviewed that " instead of ability, talent, and dedicated service to an organization, politics, adroit talk, luck, connections, and self-promotion are the real sorters of people into sheep and goats ".

* the " incommensurable hate " of the Jews — note the Orwellian ambiguity: the Jews have an " incommensurable hate " of the Third Reich ( aggressive or conspiratorial ), but the German people have an " incommensurable hate " of the Jews ( spontaneous and legitimate ).

As the term ' Auckland ' may have referred to the local authority alone, to the whole metropolitan area, or even to the broader region, this may have led to ambiguity, since people from other parts of New Zealand or from overseas often did not draw any distinction ; especially now that the metropolitan area has been amalgamated.

As a matter of fact, Zo is a generic name whose word is of local origin and needs no further explanation, whereas ' mi ' means man or people and there is no ambiguity about it.

The Arabic phrase means " the people of her home ", but the ambiguity hangs on the exact translation of dar, " home ", which can refer to one ’ s residence, neighborhood, or village.

Critic Fernando F. Croce wrote of the film, " Fallen Angel, the director's follow-up to his 1944 classic, is often predictably looked down as a lesser genre venture, yet its subtle analysis of shadowy tropes proves both a continuation and a deepening of Preminger's use of moral ambiguity as a tool of human insight ... Preminger's refusal to draw easy conclusions — his pragmatic curiosity for people — is reflected in his remarkable visual fluidity, the surveying camera constantly moving, shifting dueling points-of-view in order to give them equal weight.