English Dictionary

quaternion

IPA（発音記号）

/kwəˈtəːni.ən/

名詞

A group or set of four people or things. / A word of four syllables.

日本語の意味

四つの物または人の集団 / 四音節からなる単語

A quaternion of volunteers arrived early to set up the exhibit.

展示を設営するために、四人組のボランティアが早めに到着した。

意味（1）

A group or set of four people or things.

Then wer the dayes of unlevended breed, and when he had caught hym, he put him in preson, and delyvered hym to iiij. quaternions off soudiers to be kept, entendynge after ester to brynge hym forth to the people.

意味（2）

A word of four syllables.

In his general deportment he was pompous and important, affecting a species of florid elocution, which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences.

意味（3）

(mathematics) A four-dimensional hypercomplex number that consists of a real dimension and three imaginary ones (i, j, k) that are each an independent square root of -1. They are commonly used in vector mathematics and in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.

The right-hand side of the quaternion equation requires scalar multiplication and quaternion addition.

quaternions （ plural ）