Recentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: rē'sənt, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːsənt/
• 韻: -iːsənt
• 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.

   Synonym: (まれに, 廃れた用法) nudiustertian

   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 22 February 2016, 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.
   • 2020 October 4, Evan Gough, “We Now Have Proof a Supernova Exploded Perilously Close to Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago”, in Science Alert:

     Finding it now means it was produced in more recent times, in astronomical terms.

5. (obsolete, geology, astronomy, capitalized) Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.^[2]

派生語

• recently
• recent memory

名詞

recent (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 recents)

1. (obsolete, geology, capitalized) An earlier term for the Holocene.
   • 2012, Lydia Pyne; Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:

     He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never accepted. The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible.

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アナグラム

• Center, Centre, center, centre, tenrec