Concept DefinitionA word that is pronounced the same as another word but has a different meaning, such as "nun" and "none".
Classified under Language
Definition contributed by EBarkley-Levenson about one year ago.
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Forking concepts is the process of separating the senses, or variations, in the meaning of a term.
This process should be used sparingly, and the ability to fork a term will be the sole provenance of the curator.
Subsidiary extant elements of the original term, such as assertions, and bibliographic entries, will require manual reallocation.
Related Assertionshomophone is a kind of word 
homophone is a part of language 
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From JDevlin about four months ago. (0 comments)It may be worth noting that the terms homophones and homonyms often get confused but they are not interchangeable.
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