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Definition of Homonymous
1. Adjective. Of or related to or being homonyms.
Definition of Homonymous
1. a. Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; -- opposed to heteronymous.
Definition of Homonymous
1. Adjective. having the same name as another ¹
2. Adjective. of or pertaining to a homonym ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homonymous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Homonymous
1. 1. Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; opposed to heteronymous. 2. Having the same name or designation, but different meaning or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous. Origin: L. Homonymus, Gr.; the same +, for name; akin to E. Name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homonymous
Literary usage of Homonymous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by John Soelberg Wells, Charles Stedman Bull (1880)
"homonymous diplopia is always produced (except in incongruence of the retinae)
in convergent squint, for if the eye deviates inwards from the object, ..."
2. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1888)
"The limitation of homonymous retinal fields is incompatible with ... homonymous
VISUAL FIELDS. jection of the visual centre, according to which there is in ..."
3. The Political Organization of Attica: A Study of the Demes, Trittyes, and by John S. Traill (1975)
"Five of the latter also consisted of pairs, but the sixth, Potamos, was composed
of three parts.' The two denies of each homonymous ..."
4. Refraction and how to refract: Including Sections on Optics, Retinoscopy by James Thorington (1907)
"... the result is that the left eye sees a false object to the left of the real
object. This condition of the objects is spoken of as homonymous diplopia. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Theory of Screws by Robert Stawell Ball (1900)
"In the composition of two homonymous vectors the result is also an homonymous
vector. ... Geometrical proof that two homonymous Vectors compound into one ..."
6. Catalogueby Brown University, Brown University Class of 1838, Washburn Observatory, Library, Manton Free Library, Exeter, R.I. Manton Free Library, Colorado State Library, Class of 1838, Woodman Astronomical Library, Exeter (R.I.), Liverpool (England) by Brown University, Brown University Class of 1838, Washburn Observatory, Library, Manton Free Library, Exeter, R.I. Manton Free Library, Colorado State Library, Class of 1838, Woodman Astronomical Library, Exeter (R.I.), Liverpool (England) (1884)
"Homonymes Français ; or, the French homonymous Words arranged in Sentences, by
which the Process of Committing them to Memory is materially Facilitated, ..."
7. Diseases and injuries of the eye: their medical and surgical treatment by George Lawson (1880)
"There are two forms of diplopia, homonymous and crossed. homonymous or direct
diplopia is met with in convergent strabismus, when the rays from the object ..."
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