optimal
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- optimality noun
- optimally adverb
- superoptimal adjective
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He had a dream, and he had an optimal strategy for realizing it.
Screening markets for the optimal stocks to exploit these trends, they produced a list of companies across energy efficiency, battery materials, infrastructure and defense/security themes.
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Early approaches tried to push these systems toward a single optimal solution that perfectly matched their training data.
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"We produce neutrinos of one kind and place our detectors at optimal positions so that we could maximize the probability of finding this sterile neutrino," Caratelli said.
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“Despite crude in the ground, the country’s production and infrastructure are far below optimal,” they said.
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