daisy chainとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdeɪzi t͡ʃeɪn/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈdeɪzi ˌt͡ʃeɪn/

名詞

daisy chain (plural daisy chains)

1. A garland to be worn on the head, made (usually as a pastime) by sewing or otherwise linking the stems of the flowers of daisies (Bellis perennis) into a ring.
2. (by extension) A thing resembling a daisy chain (sense 1) in having several elements connected together, often in a circle.
   • 1856, [Charlotte Mary Yonge], chapter XXV, in The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations. A Family Chronicle. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, part II, page 641:

     And, for her father, it seemed as if it were a home-like, comfortable thought to him, that her mother had one of her children with her. He called her [his deceased daughter] the first link of his Daisy Chain drawn up out of sight; […]

   1. (backpacking) A small strip of webbing with multiple loops, which allows a backpacker to secure several objects to the exterior of a backpack.
   2. (business) A group of dealers who buy and sell a commodity (originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) among themselves in order to artificially increase its price before it is sold to a party outside the group.
   3. (climbing)
      1. A ladder consisting of loops of nylon tape connected together which are used as footholds.
      2. A large nylon loop sewn together at intervals along the midlength, used to decelerate a falling free climber.
   4. (electronics)
      1. (also computing) A bus wiring scheme in which a series of devices are connected in sequence: A to B, B to C, C to D, etc.
      2. (also electrical engineering) Several electrical or electronic devices linked in series by their data or power connections, or both.
   5. (music) A series of samplers, sequencers, synthesizers, or other MIDI devices used in electronic music connected to one another in a chain through MIDI cables.
   6. (sexuality)
      1. A series of complicated personal relationships in which, over time, people have had different partners who have themselves had other partners within the same group of people.
      2. (slang) A group-sex formation involving multiple partners, with the participants lying in a circle, each one performing oral sex on another person.
         • 1964 September 21, Saul Bellow, Herzog, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 179:

           The whole feeling-and-sensation market has shot up—shock, scandal priced out of range for the average man. You have to do more than take a little gas, or slash the wrists. Pot? Zero! Daisy chains? Nothing! Debauchery? A museum word from prelibidinous times!

3. (figurative) A sequence of events where each one leads to the next.
   • 2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 31 July 2018:

     Like Brad Bird's playfully virtuosic Ghost Protocol, the high point of this franchise in more ways than one, Fallout creates an endless daisy chain of spectacle, so that one stunning display of acrobatic nerve is barely over before another begins.

別の表記

• daisy-chain

派生語

• daisy-chainer (“person who participates in a daisy chain (group-sex formation)”) (rare)

参考

• (computing, electronics): Ethernet

動詞

daisy chain (third-person singular simple present daisy chains, present participle daisy chaining, simple past and past participle daisy chained)

1. Alternative form of daisy-chain.

参照

Further reading

• daisy chain (electrical engineering) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• daisy chain (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源

The verb is derived from daisy chain (noun).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdeɪzit͡ʃeɪn/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈdeɪziˌt͡ʃeɪn/

動詞

daisy-chain (third-person singular simple present daisy-chains, present participle daisy-chaining, simple past and past participle daisy-chained)

1. (transitive)
   1. (business) To artificially increase (the price of a commodity; originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group.
   2. (chiefly computing, electronics) To connect (several computer devices or peripherals, or other components) in sequence with each other, usually such that the output of one component forms the input of another; also (followed by to), to connect (a computer device, peripheral, or other component) to another component in such a sequence.

      We daisy-chained several USB hubs to see if we could reach the far side of the room.

      • 2021 November 3, “Network News: Lifting Jacks for SWR”, in Rail, number 943, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:

        The jacks can be ‘daisy-chained’ and controlled as a synchronised set.

2. (intransitive)
   1. Of people, animals, etc.: to position in a line and move like a chain.
   2. (business) To artificially increase the price of a commodity (originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group.
   3. (chiefly computing, electronics) Especially of a computer device, peripheral, or other component: to be capable of being connected with other components in sequence.

      These peripherals are designed to daisy-chain easily with each other.

別の表記

• daisychain, daisy chain

派生語

• daisy-chained (adjective)
• daisy-chaining (noun)

名詞

daisy-chain (plural daisy-chains)

1. Alternative form of daisy chain

参照