Brishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Named after Arkadi Admovich Brish; see citation below.

名詞

Brish (複数形 Brishes)

1. (historical, humorous) A unit of productive activity.
   • 1995, Richard Rhodes, chapter 15, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb:

     Electricity at the [Soviet atomic bomb] forest test site came from an American Lend-Lease five-hundred-kilowatt generator. Exposure to salt water on the sea route to Vladivostok had damaged its windings; [Veniamin Aronovich] Zukerman and a young protégé, Arkadi Admovich Brish, personally repaired it. Brish, twenty-nine in 1946, "blond, with gray eyes nearly the color of steel" in Zukerman's recollection, later the director of a leading institute, was a man so vigorous that the Sarovians cooked up a unit of productive activity—the Brish—in his honor and measured their own contributions comparatively in milli- and micro-Brishes.