主しゅ従じゅう関かん係けい

noun

master-servant relationship; homage

Refers to a hierarchical bond where a servant or vassal owes loyalty and service to a master, often in historical or feudal contexts.

• 中ちゅう世せいの主しゅ従じゅう関かん係けいは、土と地ちと忠ちゅう誠せいの交こう換かんで成なり立たっていた。

  Medieval master-servant relationships were built on an exchange of land and loyalty.

• 彼かれは主しゅ君くんに対たいして主しゅ従じゅう関かん係けいを誓ちかった。

  He pledged a master-servant relationship to his lord.

noun

master-slave relationship

Used in computing to describe a control relationship where one device or process (the master) directs another (the slave).

• このシステムは主しゅ従じゅう関かん係けいで動どう作さする二ふたつのプロセッサからなる。

  This system consists of two processors that operate in a master-slave relationship.