Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Ääntäminen
US:- IPA: [ɪ.ˈfɪʃ.ənt]
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
- Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
- Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
- (proscribed, old use) effective, efficacious
Substantiivi
- (obsolete) A cause; something that causes an effect.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- An efficient process would automate all the routine work.
- Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.
- The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.
- The efficient cause is the working cause.
Taivutusmuodot
| Komparatiivi | more efficient |
| Superlatiivi | most efficient |
| Monikko | efficients |