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Optimize vs Innovate - What's the difference?

optimize | innovate |

In lang=en terms the difference between optimize and innovate

is that optimize is to become optimal while innovate is to introduce (something) as new.

As verbs the difference between optimize and innovate

is that optimize is (originally|intransitive) to act optimistically or as an optimist while innovate is (obsolete|transitive) to alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.

optimize

English

Alternative forms

* optimise (UK )

Verb

(optimiz)
  • (originally) To act optimistically or as an optimist.
  • To make (something) optimal.
  • To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program.
  • To become optimal.

    • Related terms

    * optimal * optimism * optimist * optimum

    Synonyms

    * (to make optimal) perfect * (to make more efficient) enhance, hone, improve, perfect

    innovate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
  • * , New York 2001, p.80:
    • But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
  • * South
    • From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
  • To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
  • To introduce (something) as new.
    • to innovate a word or an act

    Derived terms

    * innovative * innovation * innovatory

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