English Dictionary

endmember

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɛndmɛmbə/

名詞

特定用法

A member at one end of a range or series made up of similar members. / (mineralogy, specifically) A mineral that occurs at one end in a range of solid solutions.

日本語の意味

類似した要素群の一端に位置する個体（要素、成分） / 鉱物学において、固体溶液系列の片端に存在する鉱物

The scientist identified the endmember that represented the purest spectral signature in the dataset.

研究者は、データセット内で最も純粋なスペクトル特性を示す、同種の要素からなる系列の一端に位置する構成要素を特定した。

意味（1）

A member at one end of a range or series made up of similar members.

Most significant is the observation that the vaporous for the more volatile end member occupies a decreasingly smaller portion of the diagram as the other end member becomes less volatile. Ultimately, when the less volatile end member is essentially involatile, the vaporous of the volatile end member may become microscopically small.

意味（2）

(mineralogy, specifically) A mineral that occurs at one end in a range of solid solutions.

This group of tetragonal silicates seems to form a graduated series from akermanite to gehlenite, the constitution of the two end[-]members being (where R = Ca, with less Mg, Mn, Fe, Na₂): / Akermanite, R₄Si₂O₁₀, or R₃(RSi)Si₂O₁₀, / Gehlenite, R₃Al₂Si₃O₁₀, or R₃(Al₃)Si₃O₁₀, […]

endmembers （ plural ）