English Dictionary

corruption

IPA（発音記号）

/kəˈɹʌpʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity

日本語の意味

腐敗 / 堕落 / 不正行為 / 品位や道徳の衰退

The journalist exposed widespread corruption in the local government, prompting an independent investigation.

その記者は地方政府の広範な腐敗を暴露し、独立した調査を促した。

意味（1）

The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity

It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, […] to exite popular indignation against them.

意味（2）

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.

意味（3）

The product of corruption; putrid matter.

Think of wandering amid sepulchral ruins, of stumbling over the bones of the dead, of encountering what I cannot describe,—the horror of being among those who are neither the living or the dead;—those dark and shadowless things that sport themselves with the reliques of the dead, and feast and love amid corruption,—ghastly, mocking, and terrific.

意味（4）

The decomposition of biological matter.

意味（5）

Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, and so on.

意味（6）

(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

The idea of having a time lag is to allow for situations when a corruption of some type affects the source server. If a corruption occurs, you do not want it to replicate to the copy of the database, so the time lag gives administrators the opportunity to recognize that a problem exists and then to have the ability to switch from the database copy if the corruption is so bad that it renders the original database unusable.

意味（7）

The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.

a corruption of style

意味（8）

(usage prescription) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, assigned a value judgment as being debased, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing.

Even though the longer ending of Mark is itself secondary, its wording was no more immune to corruption than any other portion of the New Testament text (as scribes would normally not know they were corrupting a corruption).

意味（9）

Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.

God creates and produces them, but it is according to the Laws of this Species of Beings who were made to propagate one another, so that in this Production earthly Parents are the Instruments. And how far they may be the Instruments in conveying a Corruption or Pravity, is what we cannot distinctly explain; but to make this alone a Rason for denying it, would argue great Rashness and want of Reflection.

corruptions （ plural ）