Meaning of efficient | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Effective, efficient.
2. Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
3. Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
4. Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
5. effective, efficacious
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Equivalents

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”

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