We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.

Since brevity is the soul of ambiguity as well as wit, newspaper headlines continually provide us with amusing samples.

Such ambiguity is generally resolved according to the context.

A mishearing of such, based on incorrectly resolved ambiguity, is called a mondegreen.

Lexical ambiguity is contrasted with semantic ambiguity.

This form of ambiguity is closely related to vagueness.

Linguistic ambiguity can be a problem in law ( see Ambiguity ( law )), because the interpretation of written documents and oral agreements is often of paramount importance.

In Continental philosophy ( particularly phenomenology and existentialism ), there is much greater tolerance of ambiguity, as it is generally seen as an integral part of the human condition.

Where there is ambiguity, long and short alpha are sometimes written with a macron and breve today: Ᾱᾱ, Ᾰᾰ.

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:

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

When murmur is included under the term aspiration, as is common in Indo-Aryan linguistics, " voiceless aspiration " is called just that to avoid ambiguity.

especially in England English is tautologous ," and it shares " all the ambiguities and tensions in the word British, and as a result can be used and interpreted in two ways, more broadly or more narrowly, within a range of blurring and ambiguity.

If Macbeth, rather than Malcolm, is Prince of Cumberland then Macbeth would be next in line to the throne and no coup would be needed, effectively removing this ambiguity from Banquo's character.

In other formulations of the Berry paradox, such as one that instead reads: "... not nameable in less ..." the term " nameable " is also one that has this systematic ambiguity.

Terms with systematic ambiguity may be written with subscripts denoting that one level of meaning is considered a higher priority than another in their interpretation.

To resolve this ambiguity, the term at most countable is sometimes used for the former notion, and countably infinite for the latter.

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.

Rather, the objective is to discover the complexity, ambiguity, and emotions surrounding both dominant and non-dominant cultural and individual narratives of history.

If a text ( such as this one ) discusses multiple bases, and if ambiguity exists, the base ( itself represented in base 10 ) is added in subscript to the right of the number, like this: number < sub > base </ sub >.

The need for clarity of definition alongside the current enormous literature and web ambiguity of the polyphenol term have led Stéphane Quideau, a leading researcher on the chemistry of plant-derived polyphenols, to offer a definition not yet given formal status by IUPAC or other nomenclature entity ( emphasis added ):

This ending is added to the plural stem, even if the noun is singular, which may cause ambiguity.

Furthering this creative ambiguity as to which city the group hails, several radio stations added descriptions of their own local areas when they ran the song.

Some additional definitions were added to more precisely define the terms with less ambiguity.

In 1632, Dahai added diacritical marks to clear up a lot of the ambiguity present in the original Mongolian script ; for instance, a leading k, g, and h are distinguished by the placement of no diacritical mark, a dot, and a circle respectively.

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 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.

This ambiguity began in 1998 when people started to use the term “ open source software ” rather than “ free software .” People in the community of free software used these separate terms as a way to differentiate what they did.

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.