Homonymy

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homonymy \Ho*mon"y*my\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. homonymie.]
     1. Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.
        --Holland.
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              Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons.


                                                    --Fuller.
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     2. Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which
        are different; ambiguity.
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