Efficiency
[ɪ'fɪʃ(ə)nsɪ] or [ɪ'fɪʃənsi]
解释:
(noun.) skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; 'she did the work with great efficiency'.
(noun.) the ratio of the output to the input of any system.
校对:瓦珥--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
(n.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Efficacy.
校对:梅雷迪思
同义词及反义词：
[See EFFICACY]
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例句:
- This, in turn, has opened up possibilities of much higher speed and greater efficiency in the machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- We have applied this test to three general aims: Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The power and efficiency of a dynamo are increased by employing the devices previously mentioned in connection with the motor. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- How shall we secure breadth of outlook without sacrificing efficiency of execution? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The feature of importance in the cannon which contributed most to its efficiency was the rifling of the bore with spiral grooves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The first development was along the lines of this form of saw, and to increase its efficiency the saws were arranged in gangs, so as to make a number of cuts at one pass of the log. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The error is in implying that we must adopt measures of subordination rather than of utilization to secure efficiency. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The aim of efficiency (like any educational aim) must be included within the process of experience. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- His untiring energy and great efficiency during the campaign entitle him to a full share of all the credit due for its success. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocution Office that had gradually led to its having something to do with everything. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- There was no buying of foundry iron by analysis, no high carbon steels, no fancy tool steels--nor any efficiency experts with their stop watches and scientific speed-and-feed tables. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The Jury of Awards, in presenting four medals to the Edison company, took occasion to pay a high compliment to the efficiency of the system. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Compare what was said in an earlier chapter about the one-sided meanings which have come to attach to the ideas of efficiency and of culture. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- To these inventions might be added many others which have increased the efficiency and production of the business world and have decreased the labor and strain of domestic life. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The ratio of yield to consumption is the expression of the efficiency of the machine. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
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