quenchとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /kwɛnt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ɛntʃ

動詞

quench (三人称単数 現在形 quenches, 現在分詞 quenching, 過去形および過去分詞形 quenched)

1. (transitive) To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.

   The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto V, page 254:

     The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thriſty heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes diſplay, / Whiles creeping ſlomber made him to forget […]

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.

2. (transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire または light).

   Then the MacManus went down. The sudden quench of the white light was how I knew it. — Saul Bellow

3. (transitive, metallurgy) To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.

   The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.

4. (transitive, chemistry) To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
5. (transitive, physics) To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
   • 2018, “Strong quenches in the one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model”, in Physical Review A‎^[1], volume 98, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.98.033602, page 1:

     A suitable method to prepare a system out of equilibrium in order to study the ensuing dynamics is to quench the system, i.e., to change its parameters abruptly.

同意語

• (satisfy a thirst): appease, slake

名詞

quench (複数形 quenches)

1. (physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
2. (physics) A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.