Paramount vs Performance - What's the difference?
paramount | performance |
Supreme; highest; chief.
* (Francis Bacon)
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Of the highest importance.
The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
A live show or concert.
(computer science) The amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system compared to the time and resources used.
As an adjective paramount
is supreme; highest; chief.As a noun performance is
performance.paramount
English
Adjective
(-)- A traitor paramount .
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.