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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 homophonous
 (a.)同音異義的;同音的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ho·mo·phon·ic Ho·moph·o·nous a.
 1. Mus. (a) Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic. (b) Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody.
 2. Expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters; as, bay and bey.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 homophonous
      adj : the phenomenon of words of different origins coming to
            pronounced the same way; "homophonous words"