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transitive verb To establish a single grammatical or semantic interpretation for.

Ubiquity only requires enough of a command name to disambiguate it within your collection of commands. — 0xDECAFBAD
On this premise we have developed an algorithm for ink parsing that uses a statistical model to disambiguate. — CiteULike: Everyone's library
Today, the person typing "LF" has to figure out which is the right result - to "disambiguate" the ambiguous term - but this is something that the search engine needs to get better at. — Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Algorithmic analysis of the user's social graph to further refine a query or disambiguate it could prove very useful in the future. — Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
You are right, however, to disambiguate the abbreviation, regardless of how ambiguous the gender of some marine invertebrates may be. — Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]