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词汇 efficiency
释义 efficiency
noun
uk /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/ us /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/
[ U ]
the quality of achieving the largest amount of useful work using as little energy, fuel, effort, etc. as possible:
Families and business need to take steps to maximize energy efficiency.
Streamlining cars increases their fuel efficiency.把汽车设计成流线型可以提高汽车的燃油效率。
The design of the solar panels is inspired by the efficiency with which plants convert sunlight into sugar.
The company says it wants to improve working conditions, increase efficiency, and generally make the more profitable.
B2[ U ]
the quality of working well in an organized way, without wasting time or energy: 效率;效能;功效
She gets through her work with speed and efficiency.
What is so impressive about their society is the efficiency of the public services.他们的社会给人留下最深刻印象的是其高效率的公共服务。
[ C ]
something that is done to avoid wasting time, energy, or money:
The report has come up with more potential savings from government efficiencies.
The difficult economic climate has forced us to look for efficiencies.
[ U ] physics specialized
the relationship between the amount of energy put into a machine or process, and the amount of useful work that it produces: (机器的)功率
The efficiency of cardiac muscle (the ratio of useful work done to fuel energy burned) is 10% to 15%.
[ C ]US
an efficiency apartment
To meet LEED standards, buildings must show energy efficiency, water savings, use of green materials, and more.
These new hybrid engines show big efficiency gains.
The program is not a model of efficiency because of the 6:1 student-to-teacher ratio.
Ships from eight navies will be taking part in an exercise in the Pacific to improve their efficiency in combat.来自8个国家的海军军舰将参加在太平洋举行的军事演习,以提高其作战效率。
A merger would enable the company to reap the efficiencies of combining operations.
They could save $159 million in suggested cuts and efficiencies.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Efficient and effective
be firing on all cylindersidiom
businesslike
clockwork
come together
cut through something
developed
dispatch
ergonomic
ergonomically
ergonomics
high-functioning
hyper-efficient
seamless
seamlessly
smoothly
snappily
snappy
work wonders/miraclesidiom
workable
worth your saltidiom

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Related word


efficient

efficiency | American Dictionary


efficiency
noun[ C/U ]
us/ɪˈfɪʃ·ən·si/
the condition or fact of producing the results you want without waste, or a particular way in which this is done:
[ U ]The use of high-speed machinery improved the efficiency of the factory.
[ Cusually pl ]They reduced costs through production efficiencies.

efficiency | Business English


efficiency
noun
uk /ɪˈfɪʃənsi/us
[ U ]
a situation in which a person, company, factory, etc. uses resources such as time, materials, or labour well, without wasting any:
The company is looking to shed around 1,000 jobs as part of an efficiency drive.
business/economic/operational efficiency
achieve/boost/improve efficiencyThe company invested substantial amounts of money upgrading the plant, and its workers agreed to flexible work rules that boosted efficiency.
improved/increased/greater efficiency
efficiency gains/improvements/savings
[ U ]
a situation in which a person, system, or machine works well and quickly:
improve/increase/maximize efficiencyWe are looking at ways to increase the efficiency of our advertising.
She does the job with great efficiency.
[ C or U ] PRODUCTION
the difference between the amount of energy that is put into a machine in the form of fuel, effort, etc., and the amount that comes out of it:
Burning wood on an open fire has efficiencies of only 15-20% compared to wood burning stoves, chip and pellet boilers with efficiencies of up to 80-90% .
 efficiencies
[ plural ]
ways of wasting less time, money, labour, etc.:
With the reorganisation, the company is aiming to achieve efficiencies in both production and marketing.

Compare


inefficiency

See also


cost efficiency
energy efficiency
fuel efficiency
industrial efficiency
market efficiency
technical efficiency
x-efficiency

Examples of efficiency


efficiency
To attain efficiencies of over 10% obviously requires elimination of the electron beam losses in the vacuum diode.
Once the practical limit of abbreviated inpatient stays is reached, further efficiencies will be attainable chiefly by addressing clinical practices themselves.
Among the many efficiencies gained in intensive rotationally grazed systems, 60-99% of minerals and nutrients are recoverable14.
The findings on costs and abatement efficiencies are similar to those reported in section 2 of this paper.
Compare the efficiencies of the implementations when used by the application with the efficiencies of the implementations when used by the dug evaluators.
All the proteins are functional in both solubilizing lipids and binding with all appropriate receptor proteins, albeit with different efficiencies.
The highest radiation efficiencies and energies are attained in chain lasers pumped by chain reactions.
Technical and allocative efficiencies are necessary conditions, and when they occur together they are sufficient for achieving economic efficiency25.
Guidelines have the potential to reduce treatment variation, which can lead to two different kinds of managerial efficiencies.
The implementation of automated systems also provides the capability to do real-time decision analysis and could thereby improve efficiencies and hasten clinical follow-up.
The power and energy efficiencies obtained in the experiment are, respectively, 8.7% and 6.8% with 50 ns pulse width.
The efficiencies of these two systems have been compared and the under-reporting evaluated in relation to each other [43] ; no gold standard was available.
More surprisingly, the blocking efficiencies are virtually identical with each other and with the unsheared case (table 6).
The penalty values were obtained from inspection of house solutions with acceptable and near acceptable circulation efficiencies.
Thus, the revised schedule models reflected the tasks able to be completed by each of the resources considering their respective newly forecasted performance efficiencies.
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Collocations withefficiency


efficiency

These are words often used in combination with efficiency.

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administrative efficiency
Tax rate increases, new taxes, enhanced administrativeefficiency and slow but steady economic growth all helped increase central-government revenue.
aerodynamic efficiency
The new compact design allowed for great advancement in the bodywork and increasing the car's aerodynamic efficiency at the rear.
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average efficiency
More than one-half of the farmers cultivating their own plots operate above the estimated average efficiency level compared to less than one-quarter cultivating borrowed plots.
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