unambiguous

English

Etymology

Fromun-+‎ambiguous.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes:-ɪɡjuəs

Adjective

unambiguous(comparativemoreunambiguous,superlativemostunambiguous)

1. Clear,and having nouncertaintyorambiguity.
   • 1965July, Donald Knuth, “On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right”, inInformation and Control,volume 8,pages639–707:

     An LR(k) grammar is clearlyunambiguous,since the definition implies every derivation tree must have the same handle, and by induction there is only one possible tree. It is interesting to point out furthermore that nearly every grammar which is known to beunambiguousis either an LR(k) grammar, or (dually) is a right-to-left translatable grammar, or is some grammar which is translated using "both ends toward the middle." Thus, the LR(k) condition may be regarded as the most powerful general test for nonambiguity that is now available.

   • 1995,Richard Rhodes,“Scorpions in a Bottle”, inDark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb‎^[1],New York:Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,page575:

     At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, anunambiguousthreat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. "I knew what my target was," the SAC general adds: "Leningrad." The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.

Synonyms

• explicit,monosemous,univocal,unequivocal;see alsoThesaurus:explicit

Antonyms

• ambiguous,equivocal,vague

Related terms

• unambiguity

Translations

clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity

• Amharic:የማያሻማ(yämayašama)
• Arabic:غَيْر مُبْهَم(ḡayr mubham)
• Basque:anbiguogabea
• Belarusian:адназначны(adnaznačny)
• Bulgarian:недвусмислен(bg)(nedvusmislen)
• Catalan:inequívoc
• Czech:jednoznačný(cs)
• Danish:entydig(da)
• Dutch:ondubbelzinnig(nl)
• Esperanto:malambigua
• Estonian:üheselt mõistetav
• Finnish:yksikäsitteinen(fi)
• French:sans équivoque
• Georgian:ერთმნიშვნელოვანი(ertmnišvnelovani)
• German:eindeutig(de)
• Greek:αναμφίσημος(el)(anamfísimos),αναμφίβολος(el)(anamfívolos),αναμφίλεκτος(el)(anamfílektos),αναντίρρητος(el)(anantírritos),ευκρινής(el)(efkrinís),σαφής(el)(safís)

  Ancient:ἀδιάκριτος(adiákritos)

• Hungarian:egyértelmű(hu)
• Indonesian:awataksa
• Irish:gan athbhrí,gan débhrí,soiléir,glan soiléir
• Italian:univoco(it)
• Kannada:ನಿಸ್ಸಂದಿಗ್ಧ(kn)(nissandigdha)
• Kazakh:бір мағыналы(bır mağynaly)
• Korean:모호하지 않은(mohohaji an-eun)
• Latvian:viennozīmīga
• Lithuanian:nedviprasmiškas
• Macedonian:недвосмислен(nedvosmislen),јасен(jasen),еднозначен(ednoznačen)
• Maori:ariari
• Mongolian:хоёрдмол утгагүй(xojordmol utgagüj)
• Norwegian:utvetydige
• Persian:روشن(phát)(rowšan),بی ابهام(bi ebhâm)
• Polish:jednoznaczny(pl)
• Portuguese:inambíguo
• Romanian:clar(ro),neechivoc,precis(ro),neambiguu,univoc(ro)
• Russian:недвусмы́сленный(ru)(nedvusmýslennyj)
• Spanish:carentedeambigüedad
• Turkish:net(tr)
• Welsh:diamwys(cy)