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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Efficience \Ef*fi"cience\, Efficiency \Ef*fi"cien*cy\, n. [L.
efficientia.]
1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or
effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
The manner of this divine efficiency being far above
us --Hooker.
2. (Mech.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended.
--Rankine.
{Efficiency of a heat engine}, the ratio of the work done an
engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
efficiency
n 1: the ratio of the output to the input of any system
2: skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; "she did
the work with great efficiency" [ant: {inefficiency}]
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