英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ʌnˈspɛ.sɪ.faɪd/

形容詞

unspecified (not comparable)

1. Not specified; not thoroughly explained or detailed; not adequately commented.
   • 1984, Stephen T. Mason, “Catecholamines and vegetative behaviour”, in Catecholamines and Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Aggression”, page 333:

     Ranicide in rats was found to be reduced by injection of noradrenaline into the hypothalamus, as was muricide behaviour (Bandler, 1970). […] Other sites in the unspecified ‘ventral midbrain’ were also found (Bandler, 1971) at which noradrenaline administration in crystalline form served to facilitate predatory aggression (ranicide and muricide).

   • 2008, Transparency, Information and Communication Technology: Social Responsibility and Accountability in Business and Education:

     Obviously, we must reject the existence of an unqualified or unspecified right to know. If the right to know did not require disclosure of only specific (types of) data or information, a person could be said to have a right to know just anything whatsoever.

   • 2020, Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies:

     Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center calls these unspecified sources of revenue “mystery meat,” and strongly suggests that nothing like this would actually happen.

反意語

• specified