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Since my asana techniques increase circulation to all organs in the body and increase lung efficiency, I recommend Bikram Balance natural whole food beverage as a way to provide all the critical nutrients to oxygenate the blood and restore the acid/alkaline balance.
Bikram Choudhury

Meaning of "efficiency" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EFFICIENCY

efficiency  [ɪˈfɪʃənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EFFICIENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Efficiency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EFFICIENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Efficiency

Efficiency generally describes the extent to which time, effort or cost is well used for the intended task or purpose. It is often used with the specific purpose of relaying the capability of a specific application of effort to produce a specific outcome effectively with a minimum amount or quantity of waste, expense, or unnecessary effort. "Efficiency" has widely varying meanings in different disciplines. The term "efficient" is very much confused and misused with the term "effective". In general, efficiency is a measurable concept, quantitatively determined by the ratio of output to input. "Effectiveness", is a relatively vague, non-quantitative concept, mainly concerned with achieving objectives. In several of these cases, efficiency can be expressed as a result as percentage of what ideally could be expected, hence with 100% as ideal case. This does not always apply, not even in all cases where efficiency can be assigned a numerical value, e.g. not for specific impulse. A simple way of distinguishing between efficiency and effectiveness is the saying, "Efficiency is doing things right, while Effectiveness is doing the right things.

Definition of efficiency in the English dictionary

The definition of efficiency in the dictionary is the quality or state of being efficient; competence; effectiveness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EFFICIENCY


agency
ˈeɪdʒənsɪ
cecutiency
sɪˈkjuːʃənsɪ
consistency
kənˈsɪstənsɪ
currency
ˈkʌrənsɪ
deficiency
dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
dissentiency
dɪˈsɛnʃənsɪ
emergency
ɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ
frequency
ˈfriːkwənsɪ
immunodeficiency
ˌimjʊnəʊdɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
inefficiency
ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
insufficiency
ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənsɪ
physiciancy
fɪˈzɪʃənsɪ
potency
ˈpəʊtənsɪ
pregnancy
ˈprɛɡnənsɪ
proficiency
prəˈfɪʃənsɪ
self-sufficiency
ˌsɛlfsəˈfɪʃənsɪ
sentiency
ˈsenʃənsɪ
sufficiency
səˈfɪʃənsɪ
superefficiency
ˌsuːpərɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
trenchancy
ˈtrɛntʃənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EFFICIENCY

effervescible
effete
effetely
effeteness
efficacious
efficaciously
efficaciousness
efficacy
efficiencies
efficiency apartment
efficient
efficient cause
efficiently
effierce
effigial
effigies
effigurate
effiguration
effigy
effing

WORDS THAT END LIKE EFFICIENCY

adrenal insufficiency
current efficiency
energy efficiency
enzyme deficiency
expediency
fuel efficiency
heat efficiency
immune deficiency
leniency
luminous efficiency
mental deficiency
parturiency
protein deficiency
quantum efficiency
resiliency
saliency
tendency
thermal efficiency
transiency
vitamin deficiency
volumetric efficiency

Synonyms and antonyms of efficiency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EFFICIENCY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «efficiency» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of efficiency

Translation of «efficiency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EFFICIENCY

Find out the translation of efficiency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of efficiency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «efficiency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

效率
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

eficiencia
570 millions of speakers

English

efficiency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दक्षता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكفاءة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эффективность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

eficiência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দক্ষতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

efficacité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kecekapan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Leistungsfähigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

効率性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

능률
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Efisiensi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hiệu quả
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திறன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कार्यक्षमता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

verim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

efficienza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

efektywność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ефективність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Eficiența
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποδοτικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doeltreffendheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

effektivitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

effektivitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of efficiency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EFFICIENCY»

The term «efficiency» is very widely used and occupies the 5.796 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EFFICIENCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «efficiency» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «efficiency» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about efficiency

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10 QUOTES WITH «EFFICIENCY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word efficiency.
1
Todd Akin
We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.
2
William Ames
The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
3
Hannah Arendt
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
4
Ben Bernanke
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.
5
Lois Capps
What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.
6
Henry Charles Carey
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
7
Bikram Choudhury
Since my asana techniques increase circulation to all organs in the body and increase lung efficiency, I recommend Bikram Balance natural whole food beverage as a way to provide all the critical nutrients to oxygenate the blood and restore the acid/alkaline balance.
8
Clayton M. Christensen
There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.
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Clayton M. Christensen
In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.
10
Phil Condit
Each of us has come to share the same point of view, that a global e-marketplace is absolutely essential if we are to drive new levels of efficiency for the industry.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EFFICIENCY»

Discover the use of efficiency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to efficiency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff
In this revised and expanded version of the Godkin Lectures presented at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University in the early seventies, Arthur M. Okun explores the conflicts that arise when society's desire to reduce inequality ...
Arthur M. Okun, 1975
2
Mechanical Efficiency of Heat Engines
This 2007 book presents a developed general conceptual and basic quantitative analysis as well as the theory of mechanical efficiency of heat engines that a level of ideality and generality compatible with the treatment given to thermal ...
James R. Senft, 2007
3
The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Get Organized to Do ...
This book will help you work more quickly and efficiently, freeing up more time for the life you live outside the office.
Kerry Gleeson, 2003
4
Education and the Cult of Efficiency
Raymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sacrificing educational goals to the demands of business procedures.
Raymond E. Callahan, 1964
5
Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market
The contributors explore the reasons why involuntary unemployment happens when supply equals demand.
George A. Akerlof, Janet L. Yellen, 1986
6
Energy Efficiency: Principles and Practices
Presenting an outline for utilities, government agencies, and power generators for educating consumers on conservation, better resource management, and a smaller carbon footprint, this book offers proven strategies for creating, delivering, ...
Penni McLean-Conner, 2009
7
Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage ...
This excellent book clearly describes and illustrates those guidelines for practitioners in the field of education and training." —Jeroen J.G. van Merrinboer, coauthor, Integrated E-Learning "Nowhere else in book form will you find the ...
Ruth C. Clark, Frank Nguyen, John Sweller, 2011
8
Measuring Efficiency in Health Care: Analytic Techniques and ...
Nevertheless, they also pose many practical and methodological challenges. This is an important critical assessment of the strengths and limitations of efficiency analysis applied to health and health care.
Rowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith, Andrew Street, 2006
9
Effectiveness And Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health ...
The message contained in this book is as relevant to clinicians, healthcare managers and policy-makers now as it was in the 1970s.
A. L. Cochrane, Archibald Leman Cochrane, 1999
10
Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading ...
The ability of countries to fend off protectionist pressures in order to proceed along the path of economic efficiency through liberalization remains a key challenge for all countries and for the future of the trading system. While it is true that ...
Roger B. Porter, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EFFICIENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term efficiency is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Solving the Energy Efficiency Quandary
That has fueled a search for more effective residential efficiency programs—and intensified the debate over their benefits relative to their costs. «MIT Technology Review, Jul 15»
2
Perovskite Solar Cell Record — First Certified Conversion Efficiency
Yet another new “breakthrough” was made in the field of pervoskite solar cells — with a conversion efficiency of 15% in a cell greater than 1 cm ... «CleanTechnica, Jul 15»
3
Railways Ministry panel to outline use of IT to improve efficiency
"The focus is to bring in more efficiency, build in more safety and ... in addition to optimized use of assets and resources efficiency, moving from ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
4
Suntech Solar Cell Efficiency Climbs To a New High
These advances come only two months after Suntech first introduced its high-efficiency HyPro monocrystalline silicon cells, which at the time ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
5
S$6m awarded to 4 research programmes on energy efficiency
The amount was awarded under the authority's second grant call for the Energy Innovation Research Programme for Building Energy Efficiency ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»
6
Higher Heavy Truck Fuel Efficiency May Be Easy, Save Huge …
The Obama Administration has taken steps to address this with stricter fuel-efficiency standards, most recently with proposed standards ... «Green Car Reports, Jul 15»
7
Mary Schlaefer joins Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance's board
Mary Schlaefer, CEO of WECC, was selected to serve on the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA)'s board of directors. MEEA is a ... «OilOnline, Jul 15»
8
Swine feed efficiency examined under global microscope
International Conference on Feed Efficiency in Swine set to release findings of five-year multidisciplinary study. «National Hog Farmer, Jul 15»
9
Supermicro® NVMe (U.2) Solutions Drive Data Center Performance …
Supermicro's latest solutions combine the extreme performance, endurance and efficiency of NVMe with boot functionality via UEFI, RAID5 via ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
10
MEPs weaken efficiency target in circular economy resolution
Members of the European Parliament stopped short of making resource efficiency targets binding in a resolution on the new package of EU waste, recycling and ... «EurActiv, Jul 15»

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