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発音

• IPA: /tɹeɪt/
• (traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete) enPR: trā, IPA: /tɹeɪ/
• 韻: -eɪt, -eɪ
• 異形同音異義語: tray, trey (one pronunciation)

名詞

trait (plural traits)

1. (biology, psychology) An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.

   Synonym: characteristic

   inherited traits and acquired traits

   The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?

   • 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, Truth:

     The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.

   • 1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education:

     The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity.

   • 2003, Robert S. Siegler, Judy S. DeLoache, Nancy Eisenberg, How Children Develop, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 89:

     Turning to our second trait, if you have straight hair, then both of your parents must carry an allele for this trait.

2. (object-oriented programming) An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

   Coordinate terms: mixin, interface, class

   Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin.

   • 2006, Nathaniel J. Nystrom, Programming languages for scalable software extension and composition‎:

     Traits are parametrized on other methods, which must be provided to create a class using the trait. Using a trait-like mechanism to compose large collections of mutually-dependent classes or traits could lead to parameter explosion.

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参照

Further reading

• “trait”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• trait on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• phenotypic trait on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trait (computer programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Attri, Ratti, ittar, tiatr