Rupertとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert. The geometry sense is also a reference to Prince Rupert, who posed the question of whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈɹupɚt/

固有名詞

Rupert

1. (chiefly UK) A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99:

     A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer.

   • 2010, Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine, Headline, →ISBN, page 91:

     'What about Rupert?' his mother says brightly. 'I've always loved the name Rupert and it's an old family name on my side.'
     'Sounds like...a whatdyoucallit?' Ted's father says, folding up the newspaper and tossing it to the floor.
     'What?'
     'A...' Ted's father puts his hand to his brow '...you know...a thing that children take to bed. Um...Brideshead...um...teddy-bear! That's it. A teddy-bear.'

   • 2021 August 20, Brian Lowry, “‘Gossip’ charts how tabloid tattlers ‘escaped from their cages’ and rippled through the media”, in CNN‎:

     “Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular.

2. A city, the county seat of Minidoka County, Idaho.
3. An unincorporated community in Ohio.
4. A town in Vermont.
5. A town in West Virginia.

派生語

• Prince Rupert

名詞

Rupert (plural Ruperts)

1. (derogatory, slang, military) A junior army officer.

形容詞

Rupert (not comparable)

1. (geometry) Having or relating to the property of being able to pass through a copy of itself.
   • 2022, E. Scott, Two Sufficient Conditions for a Polyhedron to be (Locally) Rupert:

     A concise way to express that a polyhedron is Rupert is to find two orientations Q and Q of that polyhedron so that π(Q) fits inside π(Q) […] impact the shape of π(Q) are those lying on P, so if P is locally Rupert, Q should be as well. […]

   • 2024 July 14, Vitor Balestro, Horst Martini, Ralph Teixeira, Convexity from the Geometric Point of View, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 175:

     The authors verify that cubes and all rectangular boxes have Rupert passages in any direction not parallel to their faces. […] Huber [...et al.] succeed in showing that also the n-dimensional cube is Rupert.

   • 2024, W. Jianming, W. Wenzong, L. Guangchao, et al., Numerical study of the cooling performance of Rupert-shaped film cooling holes, in the International Journal of Thermal Sciences:

     […] Rupert-shaped film holes in weakening the kidney-shaped vortex generated by the coolant was confirmed. Furthermore, the Rupert-shaped holes improve the attachment of the film to the wall surface. Further analysis indicates that the shape of the Rupert-shaped holes is […]