English Dictionary

parsimony

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɑɹ.sə.ˌmoʊ.ni/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 広義

Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily. / (by extension) The quality or characteristic of using the fewest resources or explanations to solve a problem.

日本語の意味

必要以上にお金を使うことを嫌い、極端に節約する性質・行動 / 物事を解決する際、最小限の資源や説明しか用いない性質・特徴

Her parsimony made family holidays feel more like budget audits than celebrations.

彼女は無駄な出費をことさらに嫌ったため、家族の休日はお祝いというより予算のチェックのように感じられた。

意味（1）

Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.

Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater.

意味（2）

(by extension) The quality or characteristic of using the fewest resources or explanations to solve a problem.

We used three search heuristics, Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood, and maximum parsimony, to construct phylogenies from unique COI haplotypes and used default parameters for analyses unless otherwise noted.

parsimonies （ plural ）