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efficiency

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efficiency.

1 In business and industry, see industrial management industrial management, term applied to highly organized modern methods of carrying on industrial, especially manufacturing, operations.

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..... Click the link for more information. ; productivity productivity, in economics, the output of any aspect of production per unit of input. It is a measure of the output of a worker, machine, or an entire national economy in the creation of goods and services to produce wealth.
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2 In physics, seemachine machine, arrangement of moving and stationary mechanical parts used to perform some useful work or to provide transportation. From a historical perspective, many of the first machines were the result of human efforts to improve war-making capabilities; the term
..... Click the link for more information. ; work work, in physics and mechanics, transfer of energy by a force acting to displace a body. Work is equal to the product of the force and the distance through which it produces movement.
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efficiency

 or mechanical efficiency

In mechanics, the measure of the effectiveness with which a system performs. It is stated as the ratio of a system's work output to its work input. The efficiency of a real system is always less than 1 because of friction between moving parts. A machine with an efficiency of 0.8 returns 80% of the work input as work output; the remaining 20% is used to overcome friction. In a theoretically frictionless, or ideal, machine, the work input and work output are equal, and the efficiency would be 1, or 100%.
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"It shall not be said that I sacrificed efficiency to economy," said the Governor.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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