robustとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈbʌst/, /ɹəˈbʌst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈbʌst/
• 韻: -ʌst
• ハイフネーション: ro‧bust

形容詞

robust (comparative robuster または more robust, superlative robustest または most robust) (see usage notes)

1. Evincing strength and health; strong.

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   robust health

   A robust wall was put up.

   • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn

     She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

2. Violent; rough; rude.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.

3. Requiring strength or vigor

   robust employment

4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety
5. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
6. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
7. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

使用する際の注意点

• "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".

派生語

• robustness

参考

• Robust statistics on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• brotus, or bust, turbos