Recentとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: rē'sənt, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːsənt/
• ハイフネーション: re‧cent

形容詞

recent (comparative more recent, superlative most recent)

1. Having happened a short while ago.
   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:

     Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

2. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
3. Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.

   The cause has several hundred recent donors.

   I met three recent graduates at the conference.

4. (sciences) Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.
5. (geology, astronomy, capitalised as "Recent") Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.^[1]

同意語

• nudiustertian (rare, obsolete (hapax legomenon))

派生語

• recently
• recent memory

参照

アナグラム

• Center, Centre, center, centre, tenrec