parsimony

名词 n.
/ˈpɑː.sə.mə.ni/    /ˈpɑɹ.səˌmoʊ.ni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily. uncountable,usually
    — Near-synonyms: (usually admirable) frugality, economy, thrift, thriftiness; (excessive degree) tightness, stinginess; (extreme degree) miserliness; see also Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy
  2. The quality or characteristic of using the fewest resources or explanations to solve a problem. broadly,uncountable,usually
    — We used three search heuristics, Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood, and maximum parsimony, to construct phylogenies from unique COI haplotypes and used default parameters for analyses unless otherwise noted.

词形变化

parsimonies plural

词源

From Middle English parcimonie, from Middle French parsimonie, from Latin parsimōnia (“frugality, sparingness”), from pars-, past participle stem of parcere (“to spare”), + -monia, suffix signifying action, state, or condition.
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