How to pronounce “efficient”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
• Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
• Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
• (proscribed, old use) effective, efficacious
• [Noun]
• (obsolete) A cause; something that causes an effect.

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