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"P"

polyseme
Guideline or reference source
ANSI/NISO Guidelines for the construction, format, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies
Definition
A word with multiple meainings. in spoken language, polysemes are called homonyms; in written language they are called homographs. Only the latter are relevant to controlled vocabularies designed for textual information.
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