間ま引びき

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

thinning out; pruning; culling; sub-sampling

General term for removing excess items to improve the remainder. Used in agriculture (thinning seedlings), forestry (pruning), animal husbandry (culling), and technology (sub-sampling of data or signals).

• 大だい根こんの間ま引びきをして、大おおきく育そだつようにした。

  I thinned out the radish seedlings so they could grow bigger.

• 動どう画がのフレームを間ま引びきして容よう量りょうを減へらした。

  I reduced the file size by sub-sampling the video frames.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

infanticide

Historical or euphemistic term for the practice of killing unwanted infants, often due to poverty or population control in pre-modern Japan. Rare in modern usage; usually encountered in historical contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには貧ひん困こんから間ま引びきが行おこなわれることがあった。

  During the Edo period, infanticide was sometimes practiced due to poverty.