英和和英

名詞

initiator (plural initiators)

1. One who initiates.
2. (chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization.
3. (military) A component of a nuclear weapon that produces a burst of neutrons to start the chain reaction.
   • 1984, Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 301:

     ‘This, er, initiator of polonium and lithium, would it be used in an anti-personnel bomb?’ he asked. ‘Oh yes, you could say so, boyo,’ replied the Welshman. ‘An initiator, you see, is what sets off a nuke.’

4. (computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.
5. (medicine) A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer.
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   • 1981 February 14, David Jernigan, “Mass. Activists Issue Calls For NE Conference”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 4:

     The letter will go to over two hundred activists and organizers, and local initiators hope for representation from all six New England states.

派生語

参照

• “initiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "initiator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “initiator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.