laptopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• lap-top (dated)

語源

From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) +‎ top, modeled after desktop.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈlæp.tɒp/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈlæp.tɑp/

名詞

laptop (plural laptops)

1. (computing) A laptop computer.

   He was playing Minecraft on his laptop.

   • 2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:

     Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

同意語

• (laptop computer): laptop computer, notebook computer

派生語

関連する語

• desktop
• palmtop

派生した語

• → Dutch: laptop
• → Hungarian: laptop
• → Indonesian: laptop
• → Malay: laptop

形容詞

laptop (not comparable)

1. Designed for use on a lap.
   • 1984 November, Gregg Williams, Ken Sheldon, “The Data General/One”, in BYTE, volume 9, number 12, McGraw-Hill Inc., →ISSN, page 105, column 1:

     At NCC, however, laptop portables such as the Gavilan were stealing the show, and when Miyashita returned to japan, his list of possible projects included a proposal for a portable computer.

   • 1988 March 29, John Dickinson, “The Quest for the ‘Least Computer’”, in PC Magazine, volume 7, number 6, →ISSN, page 134, column 2:

     Otherwise, the keyboard feel and layout are good for a laptop machine but, as with most portables, I wouldn’t want to use the T1000 to write the entire great American novel—just a chapter or two at a time.

   • 1999 July, Chris O’Malley, “Little laptops”, in Popular Science, volume 255, number 1, →ISSN, page 73:

     Nestled snugly into a cattle-class seat aboard a 737, you drop your tray table and open your laptop PC.

派生語

• laptop computer

アナグラム

• applot