テキスト
Meaning in Englishtext, textbook, study material
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What it means
テキスト means written content or text in both digital and printed formats. It refers to textual material such as words, sentences, or data that can be read or processed by humans or machines, as opposed to images or multimedia.
Main meanings
- Text content as found in documents, books, webpages, or messages
- Text data used by software and machines, such as strings and textual representations
- Text in user interfaces, including labels and input fields, separate from images
- Course or study material referred to as the text or study text
- Text used in NLP/AI contexts for processing language data
How to use it
Used in formal and informal settings; common in technology, publishing, education, and everyday language; typically used for textual content and data rather than multimedia. Examples: テキストを編集する, テキストファイルを開く, ウェブページのテキストを抽出する, テキスト入力。
Variants and close terms
- テキストデータ — text data (tekisuto dēta)
- テキストファイル — text file (tekisuto fairu)
- 本文 — main text (honbun)
- 文字情報 — character information (moji jōhō)
- テキストボックス — text box (tekisuto bokkusu)
Etymology
text loanword via katakana テキスト, representing the English term adapted to Japanese pronunciation.
Origin
Meiji-era modernization introduced Western publishing and education terms; テキスト spread through publishing, journalism, and later computing, becoming standard in IT and digital media.
Word class
noun (名詞)