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

Other Word Forms of Efficiency

Noun

Singular:
efficiency
Plural:
efficiencies

Origin of Efficiency

  • Latin efficientia

    From Wiktionary

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