インベントリ

Japanese

Alternative forms

• インベントリー (inbentorī)

Etymology

From English inventory.

Noun

インベントリ • (inbentori) 

1. inventory, the stock of all goods on hand
   • 1957, Japan Atomic Energy Congress, Genryoku nenkan [Atomic power yearbook]‎^[1], page 109:

     ここで燃(ねん)料(りょう)の取(と)り扱(あつか)いかたをまず考(かんが)えて-みると、元(がん)来(らい)、原(げん)子(し)力(りょく)発(はつ)電(でん)所(しょ)は燃(ねん)料(りょう)の貯(ちょ)蔵(ぞう)部(ぶ)分(ぶん)が非(ひ)常(じょう)に多(おお)く、これをインベントリーといっている。

     Koko de nenryō no tori atsukai kata o mazu kangaete-miru to, ganrai, genshiryoku hatsudensho wa nenryō no chozō bubun ga hijō ni ōku, kore o inbentorī to itteiru.

     Here, in thinking about how to handle fuel, first, we note that a nuclear power plant's store of fuel is unusually large, and it is called inventory.

2. taking inventory, the process of counting and compiling a list of goods on hand
3. (information technology, computer science) a list of all computers, servers, and other devices on a particular network

References

• Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN