spinwardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪnwɜ(ɹ)d/
• ハイフネーション: spin‧ward

副詞

spinward ‎(comparative more spinward, superlative most spinward)

1. (often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin.
   • 1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, ISBN 978-0-345-29301-5:

     It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.

   • 2007, Arthur C. Clarke; Stephen Baxter, Firstborn [A Time Odyssey; 3], New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books; Ballantine Books, ISBN 978-0-345-49157-2:

     Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...

   • 2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8, page 215:

     spinward adv. in or toward the direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating. Also as adj.

   • 2015, Steven Burgauer, Skullcap, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, ISBN 978-1-4917-6183-0:

     " […] You would fall against the anti-spinward wall and slide down along that wall until you hit the floor ..." / "Whoa, whoa, whoa ..." Lars interrupted. "Anti-spinward? What in the world?" / "Moving in the same direction as the Station's direction of spin is considered spinward. Moving in the direction opposite the spin is considered anti-spinward. You sound like a boy asking what one does with his hands when the rollercoaster car leaves the track."

反意語

• antispinward