Equivocal

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

  • 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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