Optimization

//ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of rendering optimal wordnet
  3. 3
    The reduction of a program or algorithm to its most efficient form, as during compilation, by removing unused portions of code and improving the speed or resource usage of others. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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optimisation

Example

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"There is a good number of problems for which the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions are insufficient to guarantee optimality, but this doesn't change the fact that these conditions are an indispensable tool for doing optimization."

Etymology

From optimize + -ation.

Related phrases

answer engine optimizationcombinatorial optimizationconstrained optimizationcontinuous optimizationconvex optimizationdiscrete optimizationglobal optimizationmicro-optimizationoptimization problempeephole optimizationpremature optimizationsearch engine optimization

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