Efficiency Definition

ĭ-fĭshən-sē
efficiencies
noun
efficiencies
The quality or property of being efficient.
American Heritage
Ability to produce a desired effect, product, etc. with a minimum of effort, expense, or waste; quality or fact of being efficient.
Webster's New World
The degree to which this quality is exercised.
The program was implemented with great efficiency and speed.
American Heritage
The ratio of effective work to the energy expended in producing it, as of a machine; output divided by input.
Webster's New World
The ratio of the energy delivered by a machine to the energy supplied for its operation.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Efficiency

Noun

Singular:
efficiency
Plural:
efficiencies

Origin of Efficiency

  • Latin efficientia

    From Wiktionary

Efficiency Sentence Examples

  • In order to operate at maximum efficiency, we must integrate our plans with theirs.

  • Hence assuming the mechanical efficiency of the engine to be and substituting !

  • The current efficiency was about 83 per cent.

  • But the food would not only be produced with maximum efficiency; it would be extremely fresh and very healthy.

  • We have seen that the efficiency of an electromagnetic engine is greatest when the current is indefinitely small, and then the rate at which it works is also indefinitely small.

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