cymoscopeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

First attested as cymatoscope in 1903 and as cymoscope in 1905; formed as cȳm- (the short stem of the Latin cȳma, from the Ancient Greek κῦμα ‎(kûma), kūma, “wave”) + -o- +‎ -scope. Cymatoscope is philologically prescribed in place of cymoscope because it preserves the long stem (κῡμᾰτ- ‎(kūmat-), kūmat-) of its ultimate Ancient Greek etymon, which properly does not form compounds on its short stem (κῡμ- ‎(kūm-), kūm-).

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: sīʹməskōp, IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪməskəʊp/

名詞

cymoscope ‎(複数形 cymoscopes)

1. (wireless telegraphy, disused) A detector of electromagnetic waves.
   • 1905, Engineering LXXIX, page 742

     Apparatus belonging to any of these groups might all be called a cymoscope, or wave-detector.

参照

• “cymoscope” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]