Sekirov Dictionary

efficient

/ɪˈfɪʃənt/

adjective 4
noun 1
forms 3

adjective4

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working well while using little time, energy or money
- An efficient process would automate all the routine work.
- Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.
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Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
- The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.
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Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
- Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained
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(nonstandard) effective, efficacious
- The Efficient Cause is that from which emanates the force that produces the Effect — 1856

noun1

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(no longer used) A cause; something that causes an effect.
- Some are without efficient, as God; others without matter, as Angels […]. — 1643

forms

efficients · more efficient · most efficient

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