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2 definitions found 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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