homonymous

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  1. adjective Having the same name.
  2. adjective Of the nature of a homonym; homonymic.

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  • The name "Megurine" can be read in Japanese as the "sound that travels (the whole wide world)," and the name Luka invokes the homonymous Japanese words of —  Anime News Network
  • A homonymous hemianopia, or in other words, damage of the left visual field, is illustrated in the picture below. —  Yvonne Foong: Fighting NF
  • Patients with an acquired homonymous hemianopia often adapt over a period of a few months to compensate for some of the impairments caused by their visual field defect. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Using a video-based eye-movement tracking system, we investigated the text reading behaviour of patients with established hemianopic alexia (> 6 months post deficit), a condition affecting left-to-right readers, with a homonymous field defect that encroaches into their right foveal / parafoveal visual field. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The homonymous full-length they released last year on Thrill Jockey is a study in precision-clambering pop pastiche. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin homōnymus, from Greek homōnumos : homo-, homo- + onuma, name; see nŏ̄-men- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin homonymus, having the same name: see homonym.
 

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/həˈmɑnɪməs/
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