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efficiency

[ih-fish-uhn-see] / ɪˈfɪʃ ən si /


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Several companies are focused on water efficiency, including in agriculture.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

The bank expects a leaner Porsche to emerge after years of half-hearted efficiency measures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Increasing the efficiency of thermal radiation transfer could help make these technologies more viable.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

A genuine efficiency breakthrough, or a pause in data-center capital spending, would reprice both sides of this market fast: relief for the consumer-facing companies, and a reckoning for suppliers valued for permanent scarcity.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Yet it was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that Smeaton and Watt both used models to work out how to transform the efficiency of powered machinery.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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