Lexic.us

Definition of Optimise

1. Verb. Make optimal; get the most out of; use best. "Optimize your resources"

2. Verb. Modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost. "Optimize a computer program"

3. Verb. Act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world.

Definition of Optimise

1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of optimize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Optimise

1. to optimize [v -MISED, -MISING, -MISES] - See also: optimize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Optimise

optimacies optimacy optimal optimalities optimality optimally optimate optimates optimation optimations

optime optimes optimific optimisation optimisations optimise (current term) optimised optimiser optimisers optimises

optimising optimism optimisms optimist optimistic optimistically optimists optimity optimizable optimization

Literary usage of Optimise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators: Workshop by NEA Nuclear Science Committee (2005)
"The appropriate choice of the MA/Pu ratio, made possible by a regional scenario as the one illustrated in Figure 1, can help to optimise the reactivity ..."

2. Report of the One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Round Table on Transport Economics by SourceOECD (Online service), Economic Research Centre (2005)
"... failure to optimise consumption decisions appears to be problematic ... with perfect information and perfect ability to optimise, leads to the question: ..."

3. Capital (1888)
"In a capital-scarce economy like India, the chosen path of industrialisation must be such as would optimise the allocation of ..."

4. Roadside Noise Abatement by OECD Staff (1995)
"Simultaneously with this tendency, there is a move to optimise the quantity of voids in porous asphalts, using ever more "open" graded mixes. ..."

5. Insurance Regulation and Supervision in Asia by Centre for Co-operation with Non-members (1999)
"In Malaysia. various measures have been put in place in order to optimise the national retention, such as li) the voluntary cessions arrangement between ..."

6. Insurance Regulation and Supervision in Asia and Latin America by Oecd, Centre for Co-operation with Non-members, Ishii, Hisaya (2001)
"In Malaysia, various measures have been put in place in order to optimise the national retention, such as (i) the voluntary cessions arrangement between ..."

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