prolificateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

prolificate (三人称単数 現在形 prolificates, 現在分詞 prolificating, 過去形および過去分詞形 prolificated)

1. (dated, transitive) To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.
   • R. W. Buntenbach, "A generalized circuit model for multiwinding inductive devices", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, March 1970

     ...it enables simultaneous and self-consistent treatment of the magnetic circuit together with the associated purely electrical circuits and should prolificate the understanding and usage of electromagnetic components and systems.

   • Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646

     A greater difficulty, in the doctrine of eggs, is, how the sperm of the cock prolificates and makes the oval conception fruitful...