You hear that a friend works in a "small machinery store," and you do not know whether "small" describes the size of the store or the size of the machinery in the store. This situation is called

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You hear that a friend works in a "small machinery store," and you do not know whether "small" describes the size of the store or the size of the machinery in the store. This situation is called

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Jack Blair · Answer 1

This type of situation is called ambiguity.

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In literature, ambiguity is "when the meaning of a word, phrase or sentence is uncertain". The Cambridge Dictionary describes ambiguity as "a situation or statement that is unclear because it can be understood in more than one way". In this specific scenario the uncertain word is "small" because we don't know if the word is describing the size of the store or the size of the machinery.