Look up: efficient

1. Efficient
   [horse] Efficient (foaled 2003) is a grey Thoroughbred racehorse gelding, bred in New Zealand, who won the 2007 Melbourne Cup, ridden by Michael Rodd, and the 2006 Victoria Derby. Efficient was by the outstanding sire Zabeel from the mare Refused The Dance by Defensive Play (USA). He is a ha...
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2. efficient
   [adj] - being effective without wasting time or effort or expense
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3. Efficient
   [pronounce: ef-fish-ent] Something that does not waste much energy.
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4. efficient
   a) of a statistic that has a variance smaller than any other estimate of the same population parameter; b) of an experimental design that secures a certain degree of precision, one design being deemed more efficient than another if it secures greater precision, or the same precision with less expend...
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5. Efficient
   Ef·fi'cient (- e nt) adjective [ Latin efficiens , -entis , present participle of efficere to effect: confer French efficient . See Effect , noun ] Causing effects; producing results; t...
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6. Efficient
   Ef·fi'cient noun An efficient cause; a prime mover. « God . . . moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only.» Hooker.
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7. efficient
   Serving as or characteristic of an immediate agent in the production of an event, causally productive. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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8. efficient
   adjective being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; `an efficient production manager`; `efficient engines save gas`
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9. efficient
   A description of either: -- an allocation that is Pareto efficient or -- an estimator that has the minimum possible variance given the statistical model; see efficiency bound. Source: Tripathi, 1996, p 4 Contexts: econometrics, statistics
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10. Efficient
    • (n.) Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. • (n.) An efficient cause; a prime mover.
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11. efficient
    serving as or characteristic of an immediate agent in the production of an event; causally productive.
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