figure of merit

noun

1. aeronautics a measure of the efficiency of a helicopter in hover

2. electrical engineering a measure of the efficiency of a component, such as a circuit

Example Sentences

A device’s success at preventing this, as well as its ability to conduct electrons, feeds into a score known as the figure of merit, or ZT.

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One figure of merit is the number of noisy magic states that are consumed per single T gate.

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There the figure of merit is the cost of bandwidth, dollars per gigabyte not ounce, seemingly ethereal but anchored very much in the physical world of hundreds of thousands of miles of oceanic cables. 

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This figure of merit is as against uncapped armour-piercing shot of approximately the same calibre as the thickness of the plate.

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The figure of merit of the plate was thus well in excess of 2.2.

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