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What does efficient mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word efficient? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
  2. Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
  3. Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change. (Rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent.)
  4. (proscribed, old use) Effective.
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The enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase is responsible for efficient metabolism of alcohol after it has been oxidised to acetaldehyde.
She is reliable and efficient and, in her sweet way, shows the people around her how much she cares about them.
This saves the society from wasteful investment and ensures efficient use of scarce resources.
Newsgroups are one of the least expensive and most efficient ways to source information about Papua from the internet.
Some English people feel jealous of Scotland's better roads, free higher education and a more efficient welfare system.
How long before someone charismatic, competent, and efficient takes charge of one of these wacko organizations?

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