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Disambiguate vs Disambiguator - What's the difference?

disambiguate | disambiguator |

As a verb disambiguate

is to remove ambiguities from something.

As a noun disambiguator is

anything that serves to disambiguate.

disambiguate

English

Verb

(disambiguat)
  • To remove ambiguities from something.
  • To establish a unique semantic interpretation of something.

    • Derived terms

    * disambiguation

    disambiguator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that serves to disambiguate.
  • * 1998 , Edda Weigand, Contrastive Lexical Semantics (page 257)
    • Those nouns, adjectives and verbs which only occurred with one of the senses were extracted from this list but only nouns were used as additional potential disambiguators in a differential list.
  • (computing) A program that determines the meaning of a term from the context in which it is used