English Dictionary

Gaia

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡaɪə/

固有名詞

ギリシャ語

(ecology) The ecosystem of the Earth regarded as a self-regulating superorganism.

日本語の意味

地球が自己調整する超有機体として捉えられる生態系

Environmentalists argue that Gaia must be respected if humanity hopes to survive.

環境活動家たちは、人類が生き残ることを望むなら、自己調節する超有機体と見なされる地球の生態系を尊重しなければならないと主張している。

意味（1）

(ecology) The ecosystem of the Earth regarded as a self-regulating superorganism.

https://archive.org/stream/gaianewlookatlif00loverich#page/n16/mode/1up page 1 As I write, two Viking spacecraft are circling our fellow planet Mars, awaiting landfall instructions from the Earth. Their mission is to search for life, or evidence of life, now or long ago. This book is also about a search for life, and the quest for Gaia is an attempt to find the largest living creature on Earth. […] [I]f Gaia does exist, then we may find ourselves and all other living things to be parts and partners of a vast being who in her entirety has the power to maintain our planet as a fit and comfortable habitat for life. […] https://archive.org/stream/gaianewlookatlif00loverich#page/11/mode/1up page 11 We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.

意味（2）

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, the personification of the earth, and one of the primordial deities from whom all the others descend.

While investigating the Greek mythology, we have found reason to suppose that Juno, Ceres, and Gaia are but three different forms of the same original tradition of a divine feminine: of whom Ceres is the Pelasgian copy, Juno the vivid and powerful Hellenic development, and Gaia the original skeleton, retaining nothing of the old character, but having acquired the function of gaol-keeper for perjurors when sent to the other world.