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  • 41ambiguous illusion —    Also known as ambiguous figure, ambiguity, reversible figure, and bistable figure. All five terms refer to a cognitive illusion elicited by images or objects that are capable of bringing about a perceptual switch between the alternative… …

    Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • 42ambiguous figure —    see ambiguous illusion …

    Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • 43Ambiguous viewpoint — En Computación, el antipatrón de diseño ambiguous viewpoint o punto de vista ambiguo corresponde a una falta de clarificación durante el modelado, usualmente dejada a propósito para evitar una toma de decisión conflictiva. Una consecuencia de la… …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 44ambiguous, equivocal —    Both mean vague and open to more than one interpretation. But whereas an ambiguous statement may be vague by accident or by intent, an equivocal one is cal culatedly unclear …

    Dictionary of troublesome word

  • 45ambiguous snapper — Kubos rifešeris statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Lutjanus ambiguus angl. ambiguous snapper rus. кубинский луциан ryšiai: platesnis terminas – paprastieji rifešeriai …

    Žuvų pavadinimų žodynas

  • 46ambiguous — adj. [L. ambigere, to wander about] Vague or doubtful in meaning; having more than a single meaning …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 47ambiguous — 1. Having more than one interpretation. 2. In anatomy, wandering; having more than one direction. 3. In neuroanatomy, applied to a nucleus (nucleus ambiguus) supplying special visceral efferent fibers to vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves. [L.… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 48ambiguous — Synonyms and related words: Greek to one, agnostic, amalgamated, ambivalent, amphibious, amphibolic, amphibological, amphibolous, antinomic, beyond understanding, blended, capricious, chancy, changeable, combined, complex, composite, compound,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 49ambiguous — am·big·u·ous || æm bɪgjÊŠÉ™s adj. open to dispute, having many possible interpretations; obscure, vague …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 50ambiguous — [am bɪgjʊəs] adjective having more than one meaning; open to different interpretations. Derivatives ambiguously adverb ambiguousness noun Origin C16 (earlier (ME) as ambiguity): from L. ambiguus doubtful (from ambigere waver, go around , from… …

    English new terms dictionary