efficiently

adverbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,744 of 15,258leans written

Efficiently means with no waste of time or effort. Work efficiently, run efficiently, more efficiently than before.

It is about the ratio rather than the result, which is the distinction from effectively: doing the wrong thing efficiently is still doing the wrong thing. Engineers use it strictly, as the share of energy that reaches the useful output.

Definitions of efficiently

1adverbefficientlyWith no waste of time or effort.B2+
“She runs the office efficiently, and nothing ever gets lost.”

efficiently is a manner.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeh₁-
Latin
efficientem
English
efficient
English, today
efficiently

Built from

efficere · Latin — work out, accomplish

From efficient + -ly. efficient 1398, “making,” from Old French -, from Latin efficientem, nominative efficiēns, participle of efficere (“work out, accomplish”) (see effect). Meaning “productive, skilled” is from 1787. Efficiency apartment is first recorded 1930, American English.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

efficiently in the wild

Copy-on-write (COW), also called implicit sharing or shadowing, is a resource-management technique used in programming to manage shared data efficiently.
Copy-on-write
A QCELP vocoder with variable rates can reduce the rate enough to fit a wireless system by coding the information more efficiently.
Qualcomm code-excited linear prediction
Business managers drive the work of others (if any) in order to operate efficiently and (in the case of for-profit companies) to make a profit.
Business manager
The less bound a drug is, the more efficiently it can traverse or diffuse through cell membranes.
Plasma protein binding
Postal codes in Sri Lanka are five digit numbers used by Sri Lanka Postal Service, that identifies each postal jurisdiction to sort mail more efficiently.
Postal codes in Sri Lanka

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Related words

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efficiently — used about once every 5,163 pages · #9,744 · point at the bar for the others

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