Performant

A ballet visibly stresses the performant function even though, traditionally, it also claims to communicate some meaning. In sports, the performant function dominates more openly; but, in a symbiotic relation, it derives much of its vitality from a grafted referential function that operates through cultural signs. [...] As a rule, however, the performant function, when it is supported by truly impressive circus performances, tends to monopolize the audience's attention.

The inhabitants commonly use pacing Naggs, singularly performant in travaille, and easily kept in good case.

Nevertheless, it should be realized that most of the trials were conducted with poorly performant neutron installations (similar to old 200 kV X-ray units).

Within the Columbus program, the studies defining and optimizing the pressurized spaces must be based on extremely rigorous and highly performant modular and repetitive geometric dimensions, in compliance with ergonomic data inherent to the indispensable presence of man.

Results suggest that shear actuators can be more performant than extension ones for the control of bending operations.

In our energy-conscious society, materials and structures are required to be more performant, lightweight, and cheap.

The program ALGOLOG is highly performant: it generated 259 linear subproblems, instead of 2²³.

Recently, a pure view-based object recognition approach was proposed, that is surprisingly performant.

There are strong arguments that some features of J2EE, such as entity beans, can never be as performant in many situations as some alternatives.

Yahoo uses YUI in their products, and as a result it is highly performant and well-tested.

While we can run a plethora of tools against our code to check its quality in advance, there really is no substitute for running that code within a web browser to ensure not only that it runs correctly but also that it is performant and memory-efficient.

To keep the computational requirements within the reach of even aged and low-performant personal computers, computationally intensive operations are avoided.

As my heart bears me full witness with what unalloyed satisfaction I should have seen this last duty in your hands or in D. Giddy's, so I feel myself permitted to avow the pain, yea, the sense of shame, with which I contemplate Dr. Stock as the performant.

That there is considerable drollery and fun in the work, alike of the pencil and the pen in this morceau, it were idle to deny. That the performant [Henry Louis Stephens] wields both with not a little freedom, nimbleness and ease, is obvious on inspection.

It would appear then that the Mycenaean lion-cult involved not only an animal oblation and a ὑδροφορία or λουτροφορία—in one case for the purpose of watering a sacred palm—but also a mimetic dance. The performants of these several offices were dressed in artificial lion-skins, and probably called by the name of λέοντες.

If a performant happens to be on unfriendly terms with any one in the village, the performant does everything to get him reconciled long before the preparation is taken in hand.

Present-day musicologists in Rajasthan studying the Dev Nārāyaṇ or Pābūjī performance pay their performants by the hour.