Equivocal is the grammatical quality of ambiguity due to a term's having multiple meanings. It is the latin translation of the greek adjective "

homonym In linguistics, homonyms are words which are homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of pronunciation), or homophones ( equivocal words, that share the same pronunciation, regardless of spelling), or both. Using this definiti ...

ous". * Equivocation, in logic, a fallacy from using a phrase in multiple senses * Equivocal generation, in biology, the disproven theory of spontaneous generation from a host organism

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