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Virus:
a. Medicine: an infectious agent, especially any of a group of
ultramicroscopic, infectious agents that reproduce only in living
cells.
b. Computer science: self-replicating program intentionally
designed to disrupt operations of one computer or computer
network
There are two types of polysemy in terminology:
interbranch polysemy and inner branch polysemy. Inner branch
polysemy involves that different meanings of the same term occur
within the same terminology. For example:
Sanction meaning either 1) an authoritative approval or
penalty, homeless person being either without any place to live or
without state nationality under international law, or 2) procurement
denoting either a business transaction with the state (government)
or arranging for sexual services for someone else.
Advertisement – рекламування, рекламний продукт
Insulation – ізолювання, ізоляція
Interbranch polysemy means different meanings of the same
term occur in different professional fields, for example:
thaw:
a. Hydrology: melting of snowand ice that occurs when the
temperature rises above the freezing point
b. Political science: improvement of political relations after a
period of hostility or tension
reaction:
b. Physics: an equal and opposite force exerted by a body
against a force acting upon it
c. Medicine: the response of cells or tissues матерія to an
antigen.
Polysemy can be even within different variant of English, for
example
Panel шотл. підсудний
амер. комітет палати представників/ сенату

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