condensed
凝縮された
解説 Definition
「condensed」とは、物質や情報が圧縮・凝縮されて、より小さな空間や短い形式にまとめられた状態を表す形容詞です。液体や気体が圧縮された場合、また長い文章や情報が要約された場合にも使われます。「condensed milk（練乳）」のように食品の分野でも頻繁に使われます。
Made denser, smaller, or shorter by removing space, liquid, or unnecessary detail. It can describe concentrated substances, shortened texts or information, and products such as condensed milk from which some water has been removed.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
condensed は condense の語末 e を落として -ed を付けた過去分詞形で、形容詞では「ぎゅっと密にされた」。語末は /t/ と発音し /kənˈdenst/。condensed version は要約版、condensed milk は水分を減らした練乳。dense「密な」と結び付け、物質にも情報にも使えると覚える。
Condensed comes from condense: drop the final e and add -ed. As an adjective, it presents something as having been packed, concentrated, or shortened. Connect it with dense, “closely packed.” A condensed version contains the main information in less space, while condensed milk has had much of its water removed and is commonly sweetened. The ending is pronounced /t/ after the /s/ sound, giving /kənˈdenst/. Picture either many pages compressed into a summary or liquid reduced to a thicker product.
例文
The professor handed out a condensed version of the textbook for the exam.
教授は試験のために教科書の要約版を配布しました。
Condensed milk is commonly used in desserts and sweet beverages.
練乳はデザートや甘い飲み物によく使われます。
The report was condensed from 50 pages to a 5-page summary.
そのレポートは50ページから5ページの要約にまとめられました。
condensed の類義語・関連語
condensed の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 condensare（con-「共に」+ densare「密にする」←densus「密な」）に由来。密度を高めて凝縮するイメージ。関連語：dense（密な）、density（密度）。「共に密にする→凝縮する」という成り立ちから、情報や液体をぎゅっと詰める意味が生まれた。
Condensed is the past participle and adjective formed from condense. Condense ultimately comes from Latin condensare, “to make dense,” built from con-, “together,” and densare, derived from densus, “thick” or “dense.” The physical idea of packing matter closely or changing vapor into liquid later extended naturally to language and information: a long work can be condensed when its essential content is expressed in a shorter form.
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