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[venta]

I have just met the word "disambiguate" in some documentation I'm reading (DOM Level 1, if you care).

[Poll #357609]

Yes, I should be concentrating on DOM rather than posting silly polls. Thank you for asking.

Update: It is, of course, a great word. It covers a concept which (in my opinion) isn't covered by any other word, and is nicely euphonious to boot.

I'd now close this poll if I had any idea how to do so :)

Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

A closer meaning would be "remove ambiguity concerning", since "distinguish unambiguously" doesn't imply that it was ever ambiguous.

[venta.livejournal.com]

The context in which I met the word:

"Furthermore, both OMG IDL and ECMAScript have significant limitations in their ability to disambiguate names from different namespaces that makes it difficult to avoid naming conflicts with short, familiar names."

Made my definition seem like a reasonable one. However, yours does demonstrate better why there is no pre-existing word which does the same job so well.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

A little off topic, but when I first encountered the Object Management Group acronym I quite automatically read it as "Oh My God".

I liked the idea of an "Oh My God Interface Description Language" and was quite disappointed to discover it was just those Corba chaps again !

[venta.livejournal.com]

Object Management Group

Oh is that what it stands for. I was happily reading it as Oh My God, on the grounds that I didn't need to know what it stood for. Mind you, I didn't know what IDL stood for, either ;)