Efficiency vs. Streamline
Efficiency and Streamline Definitions
Efficiency
The quality or property of being efficient.
Streamline
To construct or design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow
Streamline a car's design.
Efficiency
The degree to which this quality is exercised
The program was implemented with great efficiency and speed.
Streamline
To design with flowing, graceful lines
Streamline furniture.
Efficiency
The ratio of the effective or useful output to the total input in any system.
Streamline
To improve the efficiency of, often by simplification
Streamline a factory process.
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Efficiency
The ratio of the energy delivered by a machine to the energy supplied for its operation.
Streamline
A line that is parallel to the direction of flow of a fluid at a given instant.
Efficiency
An efficiency apartment.
Streamline
The path of one particle in a flowing fluid.
Efficiency
The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
The efficiency of the planning department is deplorable.
Streamline
A contour of a body constructed so as to offer minimum resistance to a fluid flow.
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Efficiency
(dated) The quality of producing an effect or effects.
Streamline
(physics) A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.
Efficiency
The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.
The efficiency of this loudspeaker is 40%.
Streamline
(meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.
Efficiency
(US) A one-room apartment.
I have an efficiency available June through July.
Fully-furnished efficiencies
Streamline
(transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
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Efficiency
The ratio of the output to the input of any system
Streamline
To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
Efficiency
Skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort;
She did the work with great efficiency
Streamline
(transitive) To modernise.
Streamline
Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship; - the current usuage prefers the term streamlined.
Streamline
To design or modify so as to present the least possible resistance to fluid flow; - used mostly of vehicles, such as automobiles, airplanes, or ships.
Streamline
To change so as to make more efficient; - used especially of organizations, procedures, or methods.
Streamline
Contour economically or efficiently
