parsimony

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源自中古英语 parcimonie,源自中古法语 parsimonie,源自拉丁语 parsimōnia (节约,节俭),源自pars-parcere (节约)的过去分词词干, + -monia (表示动作、状态或条件的后缀)

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parsimony (通常不可数,复数 parsimonies)

  1. 节俭吝啬
    近义词: stinginessfrugalityeconomy;亦参见Thesaurus:stingy, Thesaurus:frugal
    • 1776,Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:
      Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater.
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    • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 9:
      If mere parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy []
  2. (引申义) 节省简略
    • 2019年2月15日,Boyd A. Mori et al.,“A new species of Contarinia Rondani (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) that induces flower galls on canola (Brassicaceae) in the Canadian prairies”,出自 Canadian Entomologist,卷号151, DOI:10.4039/tce.2018.63, 页号131-148:
      We used three search heuristics, Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood, and maximum parsimony, to construct phylogenies from unique COI haplotypes and used default parameters for analyses unless otherwise noted.
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