Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
efficiency .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
- noun (Mech.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended.
- noun the ratio of the work done by an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
efficiency .
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Examples
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The idea that energy efficiency alone has never led to a reduction in emissions implies emissions were in a state of stasis, and that energy efficience had no effect.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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Chapter 18 for Hot, Flat and Crowded -- you can contribute your best ideas for clean energy, energy efficience, and what can be done for chapter 18 -- please share.
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Chapter 18 for Hot, Flat and Crowded -- you can contribute your best ideas for clean energy, energy efficience, and what can be done for chapter 18 -- please share.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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How can we experiment to try to improve the efficience of wind power unless we develop it?
Straws in the Wind 2005
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We should accept that Toyota is, with difference, the company with the highest budget (in proportition to incomes) to improve the efficience to build cars as well as waste treatment
WN.com - Articles related to Toyota va payer l'amende record aux Etats-Unis 2010
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We should accept that Toyota is, with difference, the company with the highest budget (in proportition to incomes) to improve the efficience to build cars as well as waste treatment Drag to Playlist
WN.com - Articles related to Toyota va payer l'amende record aux Etats-Unis 2010
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We should accept that Toyota is, with difference, the company with the highest budget (in proportition to incomes) to improve the efficience to build cars as well as waste treatment
WN.com - Articles related to Toyota va payer l'amende record aux Etats-Unis 2010
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We should accept that Toyota is, with difference, the company with the highest budget (in proportition to incomes) to improve the efficience to build cars as well as waste treatment Drag to Playlist
WN.com - Articles related to Toyota va payer l'amende record aux Etats-Unis 2010
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Cables are VERY well understood, and I think that you refer to impedance - pure resistance is NEVER a problem - why would it be, except in terms of efficience?
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Charles later joined Energy Minister Marcelo Tokman to launch a promotional campaign for energy efficience, and visited the Chilean Joint Center for Peacekeeping Operations.
unknown title 2009
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