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  2. Efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Efficiency is the often measurable ability to avoid making mistakes or wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task.In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste.

  3. I before E except after C - Wikipedia

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    It doesn't apply to words like science or efficient, in which the –ie-combination does follow the letter c but isn't pronounced 'ee'." [33] David Crystal discusses the rule in his 2012 history of English spelling. [34] He first restricts it to the / iː / vowel, then accounts for several classes of exception.

  4. Pareto efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Fractional Pareto efficiency is a strengthening of Pareto efficiency in the context of fair item allocation. An allocation of indivisible items is fractionally Pareto-efficient (fPE or fPO) if it is not Pareto-dominated even by an allocation in which some items are split between agents. This is in contrast to standard Pareto efficiency, which ...

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  6. Antithesis - Wikipedia

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    Antithesis (pl.: antitheses; Greek for "setting opposite", from ἀντι-"against" and θέσις "placing") is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.

  7. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    William McDougall, writing in 1932, put forward a conjecture observing that "five distinguishable but separable factors" could be identified when looking at personality. His suggestions, "intellect, character, temperament, disposition and temper", have been seen as "anticipating" the adoption of the Big Five model in subsequent years. [ 8 ]

  8. Economic efficiency - Wikipedia

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    In microeconomics, economic efficiency, depending on the context, is usually one of the following two related concepts: [1] Allocative or Pareto efficiency : any changes made to assist one person would harm another.

  9. Effectiveness - Wikipedia

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    Efficacy, efficiency, and effectivity are terms that can, in some cases, be interchangeable with the term effectiveness. The word effective is sometimes used in a quantitative way, "being very effective or not very effective". However, neither "effectiveness", nor "effectively", inform about the direction (positive or negative) or gives a ...