Value Preservation and Polysemy

[Michel Fortin]

On 2008-11-28 19:08:06 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

> Walter today mentioned he's still not sure I hadn't made "polysemy" up. 
> Indeed, Thunderbird and Firefox are suggesting it's a typo - please 
> "add to dictionary" :o).

Does this help?

polysemy
noun Linguistics
the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.

-- New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition

polysemy
n : the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in 
different contexts) to express two or more different meanings [syn: 
lexical ambiguity] [ant: monosemy]

-- WordNet <http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=polysemy>

-- 
Michel Fortin
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