Definition of efficiencies Efficiencies

/ɪfɪˈʃʌnsiz/ - [ifishunseez] -

We found 3 definitions of efficiencies from 2 different sources.

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What does efficiencies mean?

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  • efficiencies (Noun)
    Plural of efficiency.

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Noun

Plural: efficiencies

efficiency - skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; "she did the work with great efficiency"
  inefficiency unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency
  skillfulness the state of being cognitively skillful
efficiency - the ratio of the output to the input of any system
  ratio the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
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  • efficiency (Noun)
    The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
  • efficiency (Noun)
    The quality of producing an effect or effects.
  • efficiency (Noun)
    The extent to which a resource, such as electricity, is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.
  • efficiency (Noun)
    A one-room apartment.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • efficiency (n.)
    The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
  • efficiency (n.)
    The ratio of useful work to energy expended.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • efficiency
    Ability to function properly.

Electrical DictionaryThe Standard Electrical Dictionary 💡

  • efficiency
    The relation of work done to energy absorbed. A theoretically perfect machine would have the maximum efficiency in which the two qualities named would be equal to each other. Expressed by a coefficient, q. v., the efficiency in such case would be equal to 1. If a machine produced but half the work represented by the energy it absorbed, the rest disappearing in wasteful expenditure, in heating the bearings, in overcoming the resistance of the air and in other ways, its efficiency would be expressed by the coefficient 1/2 or .5, or if one hundred was the basis, by fifty per centum. There are a number of kinds of efficiencies of an electric generator which are given below.

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  • The term efficiency means that a person or machine do good work without spending too much resources, that means energy, material, capital and labour.

    Machines are efficient when they can do their task without wasting energy. An efficient car can go farther with less fuel; an efficient spacecraft can fly in space without bringing a heavy tank of rocket fuel with it.

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