postulateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Noun

• (英国発音) enPR: pŏsʹtyo͝o-lət IPA: /ˈpɒstjʊlət/
• (米国発音) enPR: pŏsʹchə-lət, pŏsʹchə-lāt', IPA: /ˈpɑst͡ʃələt/, /ˈpɑst͡ʃəˌleɪt/
• ハイフネーション: pos‧tu‧late

Adjective

• (英国発音) enPR: pŏsʹtyo͝o-lət IPA: /ˈpɒstjʊlət/
• (米国発音) enPR: pŏsʹchə-lət, IPA: /ˈpɑst͡ʃələt/
• ハイフネーション: pos‧tu‧late

Verb

• (英国発音) enPR: pŏsʹtyo͝o-lāt IPA: /ˈpɒstjʊleɪt/
• (米国発音) enPR: pŏsʹchə-lāt' IPA: /ˈpɑst͡ʃəˌleɪt/
• (General Australian) enPR: pŏsʹchə-lāt' IPA: /ˈpɔst͡ʃəlæɪt/
• (New Zealand) enPR: pŏsʹchə-lāt' IPA: /ˈpɒst͡ʃəlæɪt/, [ˈpɔ̟st͡ʃəlæɪt]
• ハイフネーション: pos‧tu‧late

語源 1

From Latin postulātus or Latin postulātum. Alternatively, a substantivation of Latin postulātus, perfect passive participle of postulō (“to request”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Compare French postulat.

名詞

postulate (plural postulates)

1. Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.
2. A fundamental element; a basic principle.
3. (logic) An axiom.
4. A requirement; a prerequisite.

派生語

• Bertrand's postulate
• Hebb's postulate
• Koch's postulate
• parallel postulate
• universal postulate

語源 2

From Latin postulātus, perfect passive participle of postulō (“request”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French postuler.

動詞

postulate (third-person singular simple present postulates, present participle postulating, simple past and past participle postulated)

1. To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
   • 1883, Benedictus de Spinoza, translated by R. H. M. Elwes, Ethics, Part 3, Prop. XXII,

     But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause; […]

   • 1911, Infinite, Encyclopædia Britannica:

     [T]he attempt to arrive at a physical explanation of existence led the Ionian thinkers to postulate various primal elements or simply the infinite τὸ ἀπειρον.

2. (ambitransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
   • 1874, John Small, editor, The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, volume 1, page xvi:

     [A]lthough Douglas was postulated to it [the Abbacy of Arbroath], and signed letters and papers under this designation his nomination […] was never completed.

3. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.

派生語

• postulation
• postulational

語源 3

From Latin postulātus, perfect passive participle of postulō (“request”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

形容詞

postulate (not comparable)

1. Postulated.
   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     postulate Illation

アナグラム

• attopulse, plates out

動詞

postulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of postulō