figure of merit
Britishnoun
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aeronautics a measure of the efficiency of a helicopter in hover
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electrical engineering a measure of the efficiency of a component, such as a circuit
Example Sentences
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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.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 2, 2021
One figure of merit is the number of noisy magic states that are consumed per single T gate.
From Nature • Sep. 12, 2017
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.
From Forbes • Apr. 19, 2013
The Navy board gave this design a figure of merit of 91.9.
From Time Magazine Archive
This figure of merit is as against uncapped armour-piercing shot of approximately the same calibre as the thickness of the plate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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