Parsimony

Definitions

1. Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
   uncountable, usually
2. The quality or characteristic of using the fewest resources or explanations to solve a problem.
   broadly, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: (usually admirable) frugality, economy, thrift, thriftiness; (excessive degree) tightness, stinginess; (extreme degree) miserliness; see⟳ also Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy”

“Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase⟳ of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire⟳, if parsimony did not save⟳ and store up, the capital would never be the greater.”

“If mere parsimony could have⟳ made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have⟳ become⟳ very wealthy […]”

“THE WATERFORD & TRAMORE RAILWAY. By H. Fayle and A. T. Newham. David & Charles. 12s 6d. [...] Parsimony was responsible for low wages: at the turn⟳ of the century the Secretary & Manager was receiving £175 a year and the Locomotive Superintendent slightly less.”

“We used three search⟳ heuristics, Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood, and maximum parsimony, to construct phylogenies from unique COI haplotypes and used default parameters for analyses unless otherwise noted.”

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