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語源

Borrowed from Latin inclusio, inclusionis, from the verb Latin inclūdō (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). By surface analysis, include +‎ -sion. Doublet of enclosure.

発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈkluːʒən/
• 韻: -uːʒən

名詞

inclusion (countable and uncountable, plural inclusions)

1. (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.

   The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.

2. (uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.

   The inclusion of the poem added value to the course.

3. (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material.
4. (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
   • 2009, Cindy Lasiter, Diamonds in the Rough, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page xi:

     The fewer inclusions a diamond has, the better is its clarity and value. Often the inclusions can be cut out of a diamond in the rough.

5. (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
6. (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
7. (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
8. (obsolete) Restriction; limitation.

反意語

• exclusion

派生語

関連する語

• include

参考

• Inclusion (mineral) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• inclusion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia