迎撃機
解説 Definition
interceptors は interceptor（迎撃機、迎撃するもの）の複数形です。特に、敵機やミサイルを迎え撃つための航空機や防衛装置を指す軍事・技術系の語として使われます。
Interceptors are aircraft, missiles, or defensive systems designed to meet and stop hostile aircraft, missiles, or other fast-moving threats before they reach their target. In the examples, the word specifically refers to multiple military aircraft used for rapid interception.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
interceptor（途中で阻止・迎撃するもの）の複数形で、語末に規則的な -s を付け、/ˌɪntərˈseptərz/ のように最後は /z/ と発音します。intercept「途中で捕らえる」に「行為者・装置」の -or が付いた形です。deploy two interceptors や modern interceptors から、複数の迎撃機を思い浮かべましょう。
Recognize intercept inside interceptors: to intercept is to stop or catch something while it is moving from one place to another. The suffix -or names the person or thing performing that action, so an interceptor is an aircraft or system that meets a threat on its route. Interceptors is the regular plural, formed by adding -s, pronounced /z/ after the final voiced sound. Picture an air base deploying two interceptors to track and meet incoming targets. Useful combinations include deploy interceptors, modern interceptors, and missile interceptors.
例文
The air base deployed two interceptors during the exercise.
その空軍基地は演習中に迎撃機を2機配備しました。
Modern interceptors must respond quickly to fast-moving threats.
現代の迎撃機は、高速で移動する脅威に素早く対応しなければなりません。
Engineers tested whether the interceptors could track several targets at once.
技術者たちは、その迎撃機が複数の標的を同時に追跡できるかを試験しました。
interceptors の類義語・関連語
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interceptors の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 intercipere（途中で捕らえる）から。inter-（間で）+ capere（捕らえる）が語根で、「進路の途中で捕まえる者」が原義。関連語: intercept（傍受する）、capture（捕獲）。軍事用語として敵機を空中で迎え撃つ戦闘機を指す。
Interceptors is the plural of interceptor, a noun formed from intercept and the agent or instrument suffix -or. Intercept ultimately derives from Latin intercipere, “to seize in between,” built from inter-, “between,” and capere, “to take or capture.” The underlying image is of taking or stopping something during its journey. Interceptor later became a military and technical term for an aircraft, missile, or defensive device intended to meet an approaching threat before it reaches its objective.
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