efficient
Definitions
- Effective, efficient.
- Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
- Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
- Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
- effective, efficacious
Equivalents
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Examples
“An efficient process⟳ would automate all the routine work⟳.”
“Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw⟳ away anything left out on a desk.”
“An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like⟳ as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention⟳ inconvenience for patients, who typically need⟳ to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.”
“The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.”
“Ownership, maintenance, or use⟳ of the automobile need⟳ not be the direct⟳ and efficient cause of the injury sustained”
“It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.”
“Ye wake⟳ no more to anguish;‥ ye have⟳ borne The Chosen, the Destroyer!‥ soon his hand Shall strike⟳ the efficient blow⟳; Soon shaking off your penal forms, shall ye, With songs of joy, amid the Eden groves, Hymn the Deliverer’s praise⟳!”
“The Efficient Cause is that from which emanates the force⟳ that produces the Effect”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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