Jengaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Swahili -jenga (“to construct, to build”).

発音

• enPR: jĕnggə, IPA: /d͡ʒɛŋɡə/

固有名詞

Jenga

1. (games) A game where players take turns removing wooden blocks from a stack formed brickwise, the loser being the player whose actions cause the tower to collapse.
   • 2019 January 31, Jack Guy, “This robot could beat you at Jenga”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 28 November 2022:

     With a soft-pronged gripper, external camera and force-sensing wrist cuff, the robot can both see and feel individual blocks in a Jenga tower, according to an MIT statement.

2. (figurative) Any activity that involves great precision with a risk of great failure.

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