optimal
optimal
Definition
op·ti·mal (äp′tə məl)
op′·ti·mally adverb
optimal
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- maintain: The inner core helps to maintain the moist environment optimal for wound healing.
Modifies a noun
- alignment: BLAST looks for locally optimal alignments between the two sequences whose scores cannot be improved either by extending or trimming.
- regimen: However, trials to date provide inconclusive evidence on the optimal antimicrobial prophylaxis regimen.
- functioning: A DIET HIGH IN POTASSIUM Fruits are high in potassium, needed for optimal brain functioning.
- allocation: Routine for the optimal allocation of available irrigation supplies were also developed.
- timing: A testing time Further modeling will be used to analyze the likely benefits of other control methods and their optimal timing.
- solution: Other similar drugs are then tested on the animal to find what appears to be the optimal solution.
Used with adjective complement
- ensure: The high-resolution output ensures optimal displayed resolution from standard definition inputs.
- obtain: To obtain optimal on this one pacific palisades and rays that dance.
- seem: A value of 2097152 ( 2MB ) seems optimal in these cases ( current CCP4 default is 8MB ).
- achieve: Since 1999, the company has been consulting with agencies and advertisers to drive campaign objectives and achieve optimal ROI.
- provide: Water recirculation technology provides optimal growing conditions for livestock, to prevent both disease and the discharge of wastes back to the environment.
Modifying Another Word
- asymptotically: Even more challenging is the problem of asymptotically optimal tracking of parameters which may change slowly through time.
- socially: The targets do not have to be socially optimal, however.
- locally: BLAST looks for locally optimal alignments between the two sequences whose scores cannot be improved either by extending or trimming.
- nearly: One of these is that efficient approximation algorithms exist that yield nearly optimal solutions to NP-hard optimization problems.
- necessarily: The plan may be somewhat jagged because the waypoints are not necessarily optimal because they are randomly generated.
- not: The amount of feedback that students receive is not optimal.
Preposition: in
- sense: We do not claim that they are optimal in any sense.
Preposition: for
- healing: The inner core helps to maintain the moist environment optimal for wound healing.
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