homonymous

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Editorial note

To be fair, it seems the site is his personal blog as well [1], well before he started the homonymous company.

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Quick take

Of or pertaining to a homonym.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a homonym.

adjective

Having the same name as another (i.e., like a namesake).

adjective

(ophthalmology) Having homonymous hemianopsia (blindness in the same side of both eyes)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for homonymous.

adjective

Of or pertaining to a homonym.

adjective

Having the same name as another (i.e., like a namesake).

adjective

(ophthalmology) Having homonymous hemianopsia (blindness in the same side of both eyes)

Example sentences

To be fair, it seems the site is his personal blog as well [1], well before he started the homonymous company.

This group's name is homonymous with a separate idea in everyday speech; let's call that other idea ABC.

Is it really incorrect or does the term just happen to be a homonymous collision of more than one semantic concept?

I often wanted some convenient way of specifying homonymous join columns, as some schemes are consistent in such namings.

Tesla models S 3 X Y, SpaceX is homonymous with space-sex, and yet you think x.com wasn't meant to sound like a porn site?

But is Google looking for a human or it just picks the first homonymous human as a poorly automated fallback because there is no other data available?

The questionable practices you mention are carried out by the homonymous association created in her memory by her sister (who is the CEO at the tune of $684K/year).

Here we can see a problem with both synonymous and homonymous verbs.

I'm looking up Thorium right now, I initially assumed you were referring to the homonymous browser (also their website feels organized a bit weirdly to me).

Since it is super common to have multiple people with the same name, even living in the same area, I am not sure how one can argue that the chatbot is definitely speaking about themselve, a real homonymous person, or a fictional homonymous one.

* Not to be confused with the homonymous Sky News [1].

Although, as the article notes, this font has homonymous glyphs, there are only a few words where that creates ambiguity, and as few as none where it would be ambiguous in context.

Quote examples

You took classes of the discipline taught in high school under the homonymous name "math".

This is what is referred to as "real time computing" in CS, a term that has recently been made homonymous by UI/UX/front-end designers to describe responsiveness in high-latency systems like the web.

> "Duo me" - clear There are perhaps homonymous reasons why this might appeal to the sophomoric sort.

Worst part is that some systems have weird overlaps where not only they use the same "alphabet", but also the homonymous sizes partially cover the same range, but don't match exactly.