English Dictionary

starvation

IPA（発音記号）

/stɑɹˈveɪʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法

A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition. / (figuratively) Severe shortage of resources.

日本語の意味

厳しい栄養不足によりひどい苦痛を引き起こす状態（飢餓） / 比喩的に、資源の極端な不足状態

The aid workers raced against time to prevent widespread starvation in the flood-ravaged region.

救援スタッフは、洪水で荒廃した地域で広範な飢餓を防ぐために時間と競った。

意味（1）

A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.

We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?

意味（2）

(figuratively) Severe shortage of resources.

Fuel starvation has several causes.

意味（3）

(computer science) A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.

Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.

starvations （ plural ）