Adequate vs Efficiency - What's the difference?
adequate | efficiency |
Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient.
* De Quincey
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House
(obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
(obsolete) To equal.
The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
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(dated) The quality of producing an effect or effects.
* Hooker
The extent to which a resource, such as electricity, is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.
(United States) A one-room apartment.
As an adjective adequate
is .As a noun efficiency is
the extent to which time is well used for the intended task.adequate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- Ireland had no adequate champion.
- All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate .
Antonyms
* inadequateVerb
(adequat)- (Fotherby)
- It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. — Shelford.
efficiency
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Noun
- The efficiency of the planning department is deplorable.
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- The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.
- The efficiency of this loudspeaker is 40%.
- I have an efficiency available June through July.
- fully-furnished efficiencies
