efficient
IPA: ɪfˈɪʃʌnt
noun
- (obsolete) a cause; something that causes an effect
adjective
- 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
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Examples of "efficient" in Sentences
- The man delivered the speech efficiently.
- The filing system in the hospital is not efficient.
- Compaction is a more efficient method to use the space in a landfill.
- All the death camps used subterfuge and misdirection to operate efficiently.
- The Roman army efficiently used their weapons during the invasion of Britain.
- Personally, I think that it is more efficient to use the inhaler as necessary.
- She learned the tricks of pleasure of using the computer software efficiently.
- The growing knowledge of yoke made the cultivators to use ox more efficiently.
- If you believe in efficient markets you should also believe in the toothfairy.
- If you believe in efficient markets, then you should be very skeptical of the rest of this post.
- How efficient is it in transporting gun, hunter, and game out of the woods that may be hilly, have rough terrain, etc
- Sure, the critique depends on misinterpreting what the word "efficient" means, as in the "efficient markets hypothesis."
- If he left the "road" and became a _very_ efficient common laborer, some _ordinarily efficient_ common laborer would have to take to the "road."
- [37] I use the term efficient in a technical sense, as meaning all-sufficient to produce the given effect, without the intervention of any other cause.
- Investing in efficient and clean energy creates jobs in manufacturing, sales, installation, and servicing of wind turbines, solar panels, and super efficient buildings.
- All we need to do to make the health care system cheaper and more efficient is to remove the dilution of responsibility and cost, thus rewarding people who eat right, stay healthy, and live risk-averse lives.
- That isn't to deny that a war with tens of thousands of people doesn't have a significant administrative overhead; rather, that focusing on this overhead (which laughs at the term efficient) ends up seriously degrading our ability to actually achieve victory.
- Now, when the advocates of free-agency insist that motive is not the efficient cause of volition, and that mind is the efficient cause thereof, we suppose them to employ the expression, _efficient cause_, in one and the same sense in both branches of the proposition.