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Efficiency vs Agile - What's the difference?

efficiency | agile |

As a noun efficiency

is the extent to which time is well used for the intended task.

As an adjective agile is

having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

efficiency

English

Noun

  • The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
    • The efficiency of the planning department is deplorable.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.}}
  • (dated) The quality of producing an effect or effects.
  • * Hooker
    • The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.
  • The extent to which a resource, such as electricity, is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.
    • The efficiency of this loudspeaker is 40%.
  • (United States) A one-room apartment.
    • I have an efficiency available June through July.
    fully-furnished efficiencies

    Antonyms

    * inefficiency * wastefulness

    Derived terms

    {{der3, energy efficiency , material efficiency , fuel efficiency , efficiency ratio , business efficiency , quantum efficiency , electrical efficiency , thermal efficiency , algorithmic efficiency , Pareto efficiency , allocative efficiency}}

    Related terms

    * effect * effective * effectiveness * effectivity * effector * effectual * effectuate * efficacious * efficacity * efficacy * efficient * efficiently

    Synonyms

    * effectiveness * (qualifier) bedsit

    agile

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
  • * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles
    • The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in the other with surprising dexterity. He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.
  • (computing) Of or relating to (Agile software development), a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.
    • agile methods

    Synonyms

    * active, alert, nimble, brisk, lively, quick

    Derived terms

    * agility ----