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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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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