单词 | unmoderated |
释义 | unmoderatedadj. 1. a. Not subject to moderation or restraint; not controlled or kept within reasonable limits. ΚΠ 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 82 Let not the heate be vnmoderated, or to muche inequalitie, least the putrefaction be thereby burned. 1627 C. Lever Hist. Defendors Catholique Faith xx. 236 Discontentment is such a sicknesse in the soule, as that where it is vnmoderated, there is a necessarie distruction. 1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Odes iii. iii, in tr. Horace Wks. I. 143 Clouds and rains storm with unmoderated fury. 1798 J. Fawcett Poems 166 Unmoderated admiration of the French Revolution. 1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 20 Jan. (1964) I. 232 I have no soul-chilling alteration to record of his character, the unmoderated enthusiasm of philanthropy still characterizes him. 1868 J. W. Howe Oak to Olive 299 After an hour or more of this entertainment, we left it, not unwillingly, being a little weary of its..unmoderated ecstasy. 1922 L. Mumford in H. E. Stearns Civilization in U.S. 9 In the five and ten cent store it is possible for the circumscribed factory operative to obtain the illusion of unmoderated expenditure. 1958 Ethics 69 69/1 It [sc. Weiss's ‘rectilinear’ system] stands unmoderated by any recognition of ultimate irrationality, of a brute existential or experiential given. 2013 Today (Singapore) (Nexis) 6 June 10 The state will have unmoderated power to muzzle not only journalists, but virtually everyone and anyone who uses the Internet. b. Computing. Of a newsgroup or other electronic forum: having no moderator. Cf. moderator n. 5d. ΚΠ 1981 Telecom Digest (Electronic text) 1 No. 5 I also tried to start the first list of this type but it was unmoderated and based at MC and got out of hand. 1989 Whole Earth Rev. (Nexis) Jan. 113 Anyone on Usenet can post an article to an unmoderated newsgroup, and within a few days it will propagate to every site subscribing to that newsgroup. 2001 Broadcast 26 Oct. 8/1 No link should be made from children's pages to unmoderated chat rooms. 2. Nuclear Physics. Not provided with a moderator; (of a neutron) not slowed by a moderator. Cf. moderated adj. 3. ΚΠ 1949 Physical Rev. 75 1782/2 A foil placed inside heavy Cd near such a plate receives only unmoderated fission neutrons if all slowing down materials are carefully excluded. 1960 Nucl. Sci. Engin. 8 691 (title) Godiva II—an unmoderated pulse-irradiation reactor. 1971 Science 19 Nov. 808/1 The more efficient..cycle can utilize essentially unmoderated neutrons with energies thousands of times higher. 2011 M. Irvine Nucl. Power: Very Short Introd. ii. 28 An unmoderated supercritical mass of fissile material will build its spontaneous chain reaction into an explosion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1575 |
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