mining

採掘、鉱業

石炭や金などの価値ある資源を地中から取り出すこと。

やさしい英語で： Taking valuable materials, such as coal or gold, out of the ground.

• Coal mining was once common here.
• The village grew wealthy through gold mining.
• Mining has damaged the nearby river.

類義語： extraction

よく使う表現： coal mining, gold mining, mining industry

マイニング、暗号資産の採掘

コンピューターで難しい計算を行い、暗号資産の取引を確認して新たな通貨を得ること。

やさしい英語で： Using computers to check digital currency payments and earn new coins by solving difficult calculations.

• Bitcoin mining uses powerful computers.
• Electricity costs made cryptocurrency mining less profitable.
• They bought new hardware for mining.

よく使う表現： bitcoin mining, cryptocurrency mining, mining equipment

マイニング、情報抽出

資料などを詳しく調べ、有用な情報や価値あるものを取り出すこと。

やさしい英語で： Searching deeply through something to take out useful information or other valuable things.

• Data mining revealed a clear pattern.
• Text mining helped us find common topics in the letters.
• His mining for positive results ignored much of the evidence.

使い方： mining for something (The report describes their mining for useful information in old records.)

類義語： extraction

よく使う表現： data mining, text mining, mining for information

機雷敷設、地雷敷設

人や車両、船に被害を与えるため、陸上や水中に爆発物を隠して設置すること。

やさしい英語で： Placing hidden bombs on land or in water to damage people, vehicles, or ships.

• Mining made the harbour dangerous.
• The army’s mining of roads delayed the enemy.
• Naval mining prevented ships from entering the bay.

類義語： minelaying

よく使う表現： naval mining, mining operations, mining of roads