ambiguities — am·bi·gu·i·ty || ‚æmbɪ gjuËɪtɪ n. vagueness; lack of clarity … English contemporary dictionary
Ambiguities in Chinese character simplification — Main article: Simplified Chinese characters A relatively small number of Chinese characters known as (Chinese (PRC)): 简繁一对多; (Chinese (Taiwan)): 簡繁一對多 do not have a one to one mapping between their simplified and traditional forms. This is… … Wikipedia
Condorcet method — Part of the Politics series Electoral methods Single winner … Wikipedia
Ambiguity — Sir John Tenniel s illustration of the Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male s face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being… … Wikipedia
literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
Constructive ambiguity — is a term generally credited to Henry Kissinger, said to be the foremost exponent of the negotiating tactic it designates. It refers to the deliberate use of ambiguous language on a sensitive issue in order to advance some political purpose.… … Wikipedia
Religion (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of religion Marcel, Jaspers, Levinas William Desmond Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906–) seem like a mere aggregate of thinkers. Jaspers, a German thinker who coined the phrase Existenz… … History of philosophy
AZUSA — refers to a ground based radar tracking system installed at Cape Canaveral, Florida and the NASA Kennedy Space Center. AZUSA dated back to the early 1950s and was named after the southern California town (Azusa, California) where the system was… … Wikipedia
tragedy — /traj i dee/, n., pl. tragedies. 1. a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society … Universalium
Parser combinator — In functional programming, a parser combinator is a higher order function which accepts several parsers as input and returns a new parser as its output. In this context, a parser is a function accepting strings as input and returning some… … Wikipedia
