optimality
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- noun
- /ˌɑːptəˈmælɪti/
:
optimalidad
- Markets and other economic institutions bring with them concepts of efficiency or optimality in satisfying human desires.
- Pareto optimality
- optimality study
- optimality analysis
It is optimality that it was always suboptimal.
- It is optimality that it was always suboptimal.
- That's a really to me that's an exciting future, especially if they're provable things in terms of optimality.
Examples
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Arguments focusing on externalities assume that efficiency is the standard of optimality.
Academic text (2004) -
In economics, optimality refers to the most efficient allocation of resources to maximize benefits.
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Operational optimality of the program should be the bottom line in any case.
Academic text (1993) -
OK, these turn out to be the conditions of optimality for continuous time.
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The optimality achieved every day in the market is optimality only within the extremely narrow framework relevant to real-world conditions.
Academic text (1999) -
For example, in an optimality study, a criterion might be a measure of organism performance, such as energy intake.
Academic text (2011) -
But optimality, in the ex post sense, is not achievable in an uncertain world.
Academic text (2000) -
Pareto optimality should be applied where systems are complex and defined by many interacting and often conflicting features.
Academic text (2011) -
As indicated above, embracing the free-market position implies embracing a particular conception of what constitutes optimality.
Academic text (2004) -
Achieving optimality in training requires careful assessment of each individual's needs and abilities.
Synonyms
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5.1
Most suitable for a given situation
A state of being the most excellent or of very high quality
Antonyms
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word optimality comes from the Latin root optimus, which means 'best', and is related to familiar English words like optimal and optimum, while the ending -ity turns the idea into a noun. So, optimality is the 'state of being best' or most effective in a situation.