English Dictionary

impute

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪmˈpjuːt/

動詞

他動詞

(transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. / (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

日本語の意味

ある原因や根拠に責任や過失を帰する、割り当てること。 / （神学において）罪や義を代理的に他者に割り当てること。

Although several factors were involved, the board tried to impute the project's failure solely to the project manager.

いくつかの要因が関与していたにもかかわらず、取締役会はプロジェクトの失敗をプロジェクトマネージャーにのみ負わせようとした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.

意味（2）

(transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace imputes the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this imputation would not be made righteous at all.

意味（3）

(transitive) To take into account.

They ſerved with honour in the wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Conſtantinople excited his jealouſy: he threatened their lives; the new works were inſtantly demoliſhed; and we ſhall beſtow a praiſe, perhaps above the merit of Palæologus, if we impute this laſt humiliation as the cauſe of his death.

意味（4）

(transitive) To attribute or credit to.

People impute great cleverness to cats.

意味（5）

(transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.

We will use a logistic regression model to impute values of nominal and ordinal variables and a linear regression model to impute values of continuous variables.

imputes （ present singular third-person ）

imputing （ participle present ）

imputed （ participle past ）

imputed （ past ）