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What does homograph mean?

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  1. A word that is spelled the same as another word, usually having a different etymology, such as "bear", the animal, and "bear", to support, to tolerate, etc.
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Note: A homograph is a word which has the same spelling as another, but a different meaning.
Each of two declarations is said to be a homograph of the other if both declarations have the same identifier and overloading is allowed for at most one of the two.
A homograph is a letter or string that is visually confusable with a different letter or string.
She's German but the homograph was entirely deliberate.
In Internet terms, a homograph is a website that sounds like a well known website but actually links you to a website that isn't legitimate.
For the nonbiased contextual condition, the preceding context was neutral toward the meaning of the homograph.

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