Meanings
- not comparableNot disambiguated.
And if there turn out to be no unambiguous words by which to explain ambiguous ones such words are going to remain undisambiguated.
1984, Frank Gloversmith, The theory of reading, Harvester Press, page 142 more examples
Such semantical cues serve to identify the proper underlying phrase-marker initially obfuscated by the transformational shifting of form-classes in the lineal generation of the undisambiguated phrase-marker.
1972, James H. Boren, When in doubt, mumble: a bureaucrat's handbook, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., page 67To prevent illegal code motions past jumps and undisambiguated memory references, new edges are introduced to prevent one node from being evaluated before another.
1984, John Rolfe Ellis, Bulldog: a compiler for VLIW architectures, MIT Press, page 157
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
- Proto-Italic*dis-
- Latindis-
- Old Frenchdes-
- Latindis-
- Middle Englishdis-
- Englishdis-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂m̥bʰí
- Proto-Italic*amβi-
- Latinambi-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éǵeti
- Proto-Italic*agō
- Latinagō
- Latinambig(ō)
- Latinambiguu
- Englishambigu(ous)
- Englishambiguate
- Englishdisambiguated
- Englishundisambiguated
From un- + disambiguated.
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