proof

既定 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹuːf/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用 アメリカ英語

(countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

日本語の意味

検証（事実や真実を確認するための試験・テスト） / 試験（ある目的をもって実施する検査や実験） / 試み（真実や事実を明らかにするための取り組みや行為）

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The engineers ran a proof to verify the bridge's load-bearing capacity before opening it to traffic.

エンジニアは橋を通行させる前に、その耐荷重性を検証するための試験を実施した。

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意味（1）

(countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

But the false Fox most kindly played his part, For whatsoever mother-wit or art Could work he put in proof. No practice sly, No counterpoint of cunning policy, No reach, no breach, that might him profit bring. But he the same did to his purpose wring.

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意味（2）

(uncountable) The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.

I'll have some proof.

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意味（3）

The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Experience of something.

But the chaste damzell, that had never priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerye, / Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye.

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意味（5）

(uncountable, obsolete) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.

意味（6）

(countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.

意味（7）

(numismatics) A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.

意味（8）

(countable, logic, mathematics) A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof.

意味（9）

(countable, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.

意味（10）

(obsolete) Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.

Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof

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意味（11）

(US) A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof was defined as 57.1% by volume (no longer used). In the US, 100 proof means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid; thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 proof.

proofs （ plural ）