Essential vs Efficient - What's the difference?
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Necessary.
Very important; of high importance.
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Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Really existing; existent.
* Webster (1623)
Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
(medicine) Idiopathic.
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
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Using a particular proportion of available energy.
Causing effects; producing results.
* Wilson
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As adjectives the difference between essential and efficient
is that essential is necessary while efficient is efficient.As a noun essential
is a necessary ingredient.essential
English
Adjective
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- Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
- Is it true, that thou art but a name, / And no essential thing?
Synonyms
* indispensable, crucial, substantive * See alsoAntonyms
* inessential, unessential, accidental, nonessential, unneeded, adscititious, unimportant, accessorial, unnecessary, incidentalDerived terms
* essential amino acid * essential fatty acid * essential listening * essential nutrient * essential oil * essentially * essentialness * quintessentialefficient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic
- The efficient cause is the working cause.