Polysemy (/pəˈlɪsɪmi/ or /ˈpɒlɪˌsiːmi/; from Ancient Greek πολύ- (polý-) 'many', and σῆμα (sêma) 'sign') is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme...

number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play...

linkage of two senses depends upon a pun, this is known as synaesthetic polysemy. Examples include: "the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, Which flung...

digits on a hand". Autohyponymy is also called "vertical polysemy". Horn called this "licensed polysemy", but found that autohyponyms also formed even when...

this phenomenon is called polysemy—a term borrowed from linguistics. Some examples of polysemy include: intersection polysemy—pairs of graphs G1 and G2...

representation (a single vector in the semantic space). In other words, polysemy and homonymy are not handled properly. For example, in the sentence "The...

homonymy. Heterosemy contrasts with polysemy: while heterosemy implies two distinct words with the same form, polysemy implies one word with multiple meanings...

similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Juxtaposition is a literary...

watched in anticipation of a romance, thanks, in part, to his strategic polysemy. He can deny that these fans had reason to do so, however, since he has...

other automatic translation tools, has its limitations, struggles with polysemy (the multiple meanings a word may have) and multiword expressions (terms...