Sentence examples for uncertain meaning from inspiring English sources

His surname Cronus, of uncertain meaning, was applied both to him and to his teacher, the philosopher Apollonius of Cyrene.

I.E. is not designed to carry nuance, and for that reason it is often ambiguous and of uncertain meaning.

It said their recovery was "uncertain", meaning they were not capable of defending themselves in any potential trial.

In this account Samuel is a figure known through "all Israel" (a term of uncertain meaning at this period); his authority rests on his position as judge.

Kilimanjaro, Kenya, and Ruwenzori are names of African origin; the first two are of somewhat uncertain meaning, and Ruwenzori may come from Nyoro words meaning "place of rain".

One of the conundrums that Machiavelli poses for his readers is that this verbal clarity lends itself to such uncertain meaning.

For some analysts here, the statue's mixed signals symbolize this anniversary year's uncertain meanings, calling it a monumental construction project conceded to foreigners and inaugurated in an April ceremony attended by heads of state like Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, both of whom have been the object of international scorn for their human rights records.

Borenstein's proposal leaves uncertain the meaning of "stabilized" or magnitude of a "shift," which might vary by analyst.

The use of an indirectly measurable latent variable with uncertain physiological meaning is confusing and debatable for nonmodelers.

Type III error refers to the lack of relevance of some biomarkers, with uncertain biological meaning, for the interpretation of exposure disease relationships.

It's telling that Heaney published his first poems under the pseudonym "Incertus," meaning "uncertain".