Massifとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /mæˈsiːf/, /ˈmæsɪf/
• 韻: -iːf

名詞

massif (plural massifs)

1. A principal mountain mass.
   • 1954 August, H. M. Madgwick, “The Blaenau Festiniog Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:

     This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.

2. A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists.
   • 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead:

     The southern borders of these states are keyed to the same horizontal projection, one surveyed by the frontier planter William Byrd in 1728, while the rivers forming their northern extents fall back just opposite each other from the flanks of the Appalachian massif.

   • 1921, Max Roesler, The Iron-ore Resources of Europe‎, page 68:

     Some deposits of iron ore are scattered along the edges of the massif in south - central France.

   • 1891, Carl Diener, “Reviews and Notices”, in The Alpine Journal‎, volume 15, page 564:

     The southern portion of the zone from the Maritime Alps to the Pelvoux massif is complicated by the movements which have accompanied the formation of the mountains of Provence.

派生語

• Armorican Massif

語源

From Middle French massif; equivalent to mass +‎ -if.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmasif/

形容詞

massif

1. (Late Middle English) weighty, massy, weighing very much.
2. (Late Middle English, rare) massive, huge, enormous.
3. (Late Middle English, rare) not sharp, unsharpened, coarse.

関連する語

• massy

派生した語

• English: massive
• Scots: massive (obsolete)

参照

• “massī̆f, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 April 2018.