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What does polysemy mean?

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  1. (semantics) The ability of words, signs and symbols to have multiple meanings.
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These concern the distinction between polysemy and homonymy, and between polysemy and monosemy.
We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.
Yet polysemy is endemic to natural languages, as a detailed analysis of just about any word will confirm.
The aim is therefore to resort to a language that allows evocation, polysemy, non-linear thought, a certain complexity: the language of images.
All the words for actual snow have been removed, and I'm ignoring the extensive polysemy of snow and many of its derivatives.
The standard approach to polysemy in natural language processing has been to break down the problem into sub-tasks.

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