univocal

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having only one possible meaning.

   “There were, he argued, some words, such as ‘fat’ or ‘exhausted’, that could not apply to God, but if such terms as ‘being’, ‘goodness’ or ‘wisdom’ were not univocal of God and creatures, ‘one could not naturally have any concept of God – which is false.’”

2. sıfat Containing instances of only one vowel; univocalic.

   “Eunoia is a univocal lipogram — an anomalous narrative, in which each vowel appears by itself in its own chapter, telling a story in its own voice.”

3. sıfat Having unison of sound, as the octave has in music.
4. sıfat Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.

   “It is not indeed impossible, that from the sperm of a cock, hen, or other animal, being once in putrescence, either from incubation or otherwise, some generation may ensue; not univocal and of the same species, but some imperfect or monstrous production […]”

5. sıfat Unequivocal; indubitable.

   “These scenarios should not be seen as unambiguous, univocal solutions, and it would be wrong to treat any of them as such; rather, they are just meant to spell out a range of possibilities.”

6. isim A word having only one meaning.
7. isim A document containing instances of only one vowel.

   “The univocal is by no means the preserve of the nineteenth century. Georges Perec's 1972 novella Les revenentes complemented his earlier lipogrammatic work by being a univocalic piece in which the letter e is the only vowel used.”