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Definition of Optimum
1. Adjective. Most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied. "Optimal concentration of a drug"
2. Noun. Most favorable conditions or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances.
Definition of Optimum
1. Noun. The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances. ¹
2. Adjective. best or most advantageous; surpassing all others ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Optimum
1. the most favorable condition for obtaining a given result [n -MA or -MUMS]
Medical Definition of Optimum
1. The best or most suitable; e.g., denoting the dose of a remedy likely to give most benefit with fewest side effects, the temperature or pH at which an enzyme has maximal activity. Origin: L. Ntr. Sing. Of optimus, best (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optimum
Literary usage of Optimum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"3. Cardinal Points of the Functions of Plants. The harmonic optimum. The absolute
optimum. ... Fluctuations of the harmonic optimum during development. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"If this stimulus ranges between a minimum and an optimum point an excitation of
function results; if beyond the optimum point a depression of function, ..."
3. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles Edward Marshall (1911)
"THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE is usually about 10° to 15° higher than the optimum.
The development of microorganisms above the optimum temperature is not quite ..."
4. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"The Diet Should Be as Near the optimum as Possible with Respect to Every Factor.—The
object of this account of the effects of faulty diets which fall short ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"(b)1 The following apparatus may be used not only for testing their sensitiveness
to temperature, but also for finding their optimum. ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"... Calculation of an Osmotic optimum. By Professor Dr. L. ERRERA (Brussels).
Recent researches made by Dr. F. Van Rysselberghe in the Botanical Institute ..."
7. Biological Control of Insects and Mites: An Introduction to Beneficial by Daniel L. Mahr, Nino M. Ridgway (1993)
"optimum ENVIRONMENTAL RANGE OF NATURAL ENEMIES Many of the successes in classical
biological control have occurred in tropical and subtropical locations. ..."
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