to the uterine cervix. Usage labels of "sensu" plus a qualifier, such as "sensu stricto" ("in the strict sense") or "sensu lato" ("in the broad sense") are sometimes used to clarify what is meant by a text. Relation to etymology Polysemy entails a common historic root to a word or phrase. Broad medical terms usually followed by qualifiers, such as those in relation to certain conditions or types of anatomical locations are polysemic, and older conceptual words are with few exceptions highly polysemic (and usually beyond shades of similar meaning into the realms of being ambiguous). Homonymy is where two separate-root words (lexemes) happen to have the same spelling and pronunciation. See also denotation semantics – study of meaning lexical semantics – the study of what the words of a language denote and how it is that they do this word-sense induction – the task of automatically acquiring the senses of a target word word-sense disambiguation – the task of automatically associating a sense with a word in context lexical substitution – the task of replacing a word in context with a lexical substitute sememe – unit of meaning linguistics – the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. sense and reference functor - a mathematical term which is the overarching generalization of the intentionality behind the class of transfers of intelligability at two different levels of analysis. References External links "I don’t believe in word senses" – Adam Kilgarriff (1997) – archive WordNet(R) – a large lexical database of English words and their meanings maintained by the Princeton Cognitive Science Laboratory Lexical semantics Semantics Word-sense disambiguation Philosophical logic