efficiency
NounUS[ih-fish-uhn-see]/ɪˈfɪʃənsi/4 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)
- the ratio of the output to the input of any systemType of ratioKinds figure of merit
- skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort“she did the work with great efficiency”Opposite inefficiencyType of skillfulnessKinds economy
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Translations
Noun extent to which time is well used
- Spanish
- eficiencia
- French
- efficacité
- German
- Effizienz
- Italian
- efficienza
- Portuguese
- eficiência
- Turkish
- verimlilik
- Russian
- эффекти́вность effektívnostʹ
- Arabic
- كفاءة kafāʔa
- Chinese
- 效率 xiàolǜ
- Japanese
- 効率 kōritsu
11 more languages
- Dutch
- efficiëntie
- Polish
- efektywność
- Swedish
- effektivitet
- Indonesian
- efisiensi
- Hungarian
- hatékonyság
- Portuguese (PT)
- eficiência
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 效率 xiàolǜ
- Catalan
- eficiència
- Czech
- účinnost
- Finnish
- tehokkuus
- Romanian
- eficiență
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
ef·fi′cience (ĕf-fĭsh′ens), ef·fi′cien·cy (ĕf-fĭsh′en-sy̆) noun
Origin: L. efficientia.
1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.— Richard Hooker
2. Mechanics The ratio of useful work to energy expended. W. J. Macquorn Rankine
efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done by an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54