Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In philology, of or pertaining to homographs.
- In geometry, having the same anharmonic ratio or system of anharmonic ratios; capable of being brought into coincidence by a series of central projections upon planes; so related, as two figures, that to any point in one (without exception) only one point in the other corresponds, and vice versa, while to points situated in a line in either figure correspond collinear points in the other.
- In orthography, relating to homography; employing the same character at all times and in all circumstances to represent the same sound: as, a homographic alphabet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words.
- adjective (Geom.) Possessing the property of homography.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Spelt
identically . - adjective Employing a single and separate
character to represent eachsound .
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Examples
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A sensible spelling reform as opposed to revolution of English spelling would eliminate the unpredictable pronunciations and the homographic heterophones, making English spellng as usable as French spelling.
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Its facility returned me to the sugary evocations I first saw in its title; here, indeed, is social critique tied up with a homographic bow.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Anne Midgette 2011
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Jon Mills Chicago, Illinois We, too, were unfamiliar with the term "homographic-heterosemantic phonoglosses," but the meanings of its elements are transparent enough: homographic means ` (of two or more words) written identically '; heterosemantic means
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And given the contradictory meanings of garnish adding to a dish or taking away from someone’s wages, it qualifies as a homographic homophonic autantonym.
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