Efficiency and Means

Efficiency

Efficiency noun - The power to produce a desired result.

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Means and efficiency are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Means" instead a noun "Efficiency".

Nearby Words: efficient, efficiently, efficacy

Means noun - How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.

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Efficiency and means are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Efficiency" instead a noun "Means".

Nearby Words: mean, meaning

human	human efficiency	human means
preferred	preferred efficiency	preferred means
good	good efficiency	good means
better	better efficiency	better means
Other adjectives: normal, usual, perfect, brutal, powerful, actual, extreme, evil, new, less, limited, military, magical.

Edwards Deming, who had been responsible for researching major means of improving manufacturing efficiency during World War II.

Source: Analysis / Japan Takes Over the World
He spends the inter-book updates and the first third of Book 2 managing the city, which in Erfworld terms means just walking around symbolic buildings to increase their efficiency.

Source: Achilles in His Tent
The sourcebook for Alchemicals goes out of its way to point out that this means they focus on efficiency and do not become needlessly cruel.

Source: Straw Vulcan

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