parsimony

英語

詞源

源自中古英語 parcimonie，源自中古法語 parsimonie，源自拉丁語 parsimōnia (「節約，節儉」)，源自pars-，parcere (「節約」)的過去分詞詞幹， + -monia (表示動作、狀態或條件的後綴)。

發音

• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈpɑɹ.sə.ˌmoʊ.ni/
• 斷字：par‧si‧mony

名詞

parsimony (通常不可數, 複數 parsimonies)

1. 節儉；吝嗇

   近義詞： stinginess、frugality、economy；亦參見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. (引申義) 節省；簡略
   • 2019 2月 15, 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 151, →DOI，頁號s 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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衍生詞彙

• parsimonious

參見

• Occam's razor

延伸閱讀

• 「parsimony」, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• 「parsimony」, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• parsimony在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en