utileとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈjuː.taɪl/
• 韻: -uːtaɪl

形容詞

utile (comparative more utile, superlative most utile)

1. (now rare) Useful.

   Antonyms: inutile (obsolete), see more at unuseful

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 16:

     technologists (the so-called Eggheads) all over the world were trying to make publicly utile and commercially rewarding the extremely elaborate and still very expensive, hydrodynamic telephones and other miserable gadgets […]

名詞

utile (plural utiles)

1. (economics) A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.
   • 2002, Louis Groarke, The Good Rebel: Understanding Freedom and Morality, →ISBN, page 29:

     Rational agents always maximize the number of utiles procured; that is, they will always choose those outcomes which promise to produce the most utiles.

   • 2006, "Economic Roundup Autumn 2006," www.treasury.gov.au (Australian Government Treasury) (retrieved 20 Oct 2013):

     [T]he ‘happiness utile’ does not exist, at least not yet.

同意語

• (unit of satisfaction): hedon, util

関連する語

• utility

アナグラム

• Lieut, Lieut., tuile

形容詞

ūtile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of ūtilis

副詞

ūtile (comparative ūtilius, superlative ūtillimē)

1. usefully

   Synonym: ūtiliter