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5 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Apartment \A*part"ment\, noun [F. appartement; cf. It. appartamento, fr. appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. See {Apart}.]
1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. --Fielding.
2. A set or suite of rooms. --De Quincey.
3. A compartment. [Obs.] --Pope.
4. A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases rented from the owner by those dwelling in them. [PJC]
{efficiency apartment}, a small apartment[4], sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pull out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an {efficiency}. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
efficience \ef*fi"cience\ ([e^]f*f[i^]sh"ens), efficiency \ef*fi"cien*cy\ ([e^]f*f[i^]sh"en*s[y^]), noun [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 by an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
efficiency apartment \efficiency apartment\ n., a small apartment[4], sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pulled out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an {efficiency}. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
efficiency
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "efficiency": ability, able, ableness, address, adept, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness, airmanship, applicability, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, availability, bravura, brilliance, caliber, capability, capable, capableness, capacity, cleverness, command, competence, competent, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, effectiveness, effectual, efficacious, efficaciousness, efficacy, efficient, experience, expert, expertise, expertness, facility, faculty, finesse, fitness, fitted, flair, functionality, genius, grace, grip, handiness, helpfulness, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, know-how, marksmanship, masterly, mastership, mastery, operability, performance, potency, practicability, practical ability, practical utility, practicality, productivity, proficiency, proficient, profitability, prowess, qualification, qualified, quickness, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, serviceability, skill, skilled, skillful, skillfulness, style, sufficiency, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, talent, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, the goods, the stuff, timing, usability, use, usefulness, utility, utilizability, virtuosity, virtuous, what it takes, wit, wizardry, workmanship
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