Definition of efficiency. Meaning of efficiency. Synonyms of efficiency

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Definition of efficiency

Efficiency
Efficience Ef*fi"cience, Efficiency Ef*fi"cien*cy, n. [L. efficientia.] 1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency. The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us. --Hooker. 2. (Mech.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended. --Rankine. Efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it.

Meaning of efficiency from wikipedia

- Efficiency is the often measurable ability to avoid making mistakes or wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task. In...
- Pareto efficiency or Pareto optimality is a situation where no action or allocation is available that makes one individual better off without making another...
- Engine efficiency of thermal engines is the relationship between the total energy contained in the fuel, and the amount of energy used to perform useful...
- Faraday efficiency (also called faradaic efficiency, faradaic yield, coulombic efficiency or current efficiency) describes the efficiency with which...
- Energy efficiency may refer to: Energy efficiency (physics), the ratio between the useful output and input of an energy conversion process Electrical efficiency...
- In thermodynamics, the thermal efficiency ( η t h {\displaystyle \eta _{\rm {th}}} ) is a dimensionless performance measure of a device that uses thermal...
- The efficiency ratio indicates the expenses as a percentage of revenue (expenses / revenue), with a few variations – it is essentially how much a corporation...
- In statistics, efficiency is a measure of quality of an estimator, of an experimental design, or of a hypothesis testing procedure. Essentially, a more...
- The term quantum efficiency (QE) may apply to incident photon to converted electron (IPCE) ratio of a photosensitive device, or it may refer to the TMR...
- Spectral efficiency, spectrum efficiency or bandwidth efficiency refers to the information rate that can be transmitted over a given bandwidth in a specific...