Aerosolとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From aero- +‎ sol (“solution”).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɑl/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɛə.ɹəˌsɒl/

名詞

aerosol (plural aerosols)

1. A mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium.

   Examples of common aerosols are mist, fog, and smoke.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 386:

     The entire side of the barge chases itself inward, like the steel has become liquid and is running down a deain, and the metal turns bright as shock waves simply turn that thick layer of rust into an aerosol, blast it free from the steel borne on a wave of sound so powerful that it hurts Hiro down inside his chest and makes him feel sick.

2. An aerosol can.
3. The payload (e.g. insecticide, paint, oil, cosmetics) and propellant contained by an aerosol can.
4. (physics) A colloidal system in which the dispersed phase is composed of either solid or liquid particles and in which the dispersal medium is some gas, usually air.

派生語

派生した語

• →? Arabic: أَيْرُوسُول (ʔayrūsūl)
• → Cebuano: ayrosol
• → Irish: aerasól
• → Punjabi: ਐਰੋਸੋਲ (airosol)
• → Welsh: erosol

動詞

aerosol (third-person singular simple present aerosols, present participle (US) aerosoling or (UK) aerosolling, simple past and past participle (US) aerosoled or (UK) aerosolled)

1. (transitive) To spray with an aerosol.
   • 1958, Cooperative Economic Insect Report, page 727:

     The door entrance and space going up the steps was aerosoled just before passengers started to enter. A second spray was given after they were aboard.

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “aerosol”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “aerosol”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• roseola