词源

源自中古英語 ，源自中古法語 ，源自拉丁語 (“节约，节俭”)，源自， (“节约”)的过去分词词干， + (表示动作、状态或条件的后缀)。

发音

• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈpɑɹ.sə.ˌmoʊ.ni/
• 斷字：par‧si‧mony

名词

(通常不可數，複數)

1. 节俭；吝啬

   近義詞： 、、；亦參見Thesaurus:stingy, Thesaurus:frugal

   • 1776, Adam Smith, :

     Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater.

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   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 9:

     If mere parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy […]

2. (引申义) 节省；简略
   • 2019 2月 15, Boyd A. Mori et al., “A new species of Contarinia Rondani (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) that induces flower galls on canola (Brassicaceae) in the Canadian prairies”, 出自 Canadian Entomologist, 卷 151, →DOI，頁號s 131-148:

     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.

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