optimize
verb (used with object)
to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
optimized
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past participleof optimize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof optimize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
optimizeverb (used with object)to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
Example Sentences
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The company recently bought a large portfolio of 800 MHz spectrum, and got approval from the FCC to launch 15,000 satellites optimized for global 2GHz spectrum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The findings challenge the assumption that birds traveling enormous distances must have wings optimized primarily for efficient long-distance flight.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Once the coronagraph's focus had been optimized, engineers returned to the Wide Field Instrument for another round of adjustments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
This is the problem with imagining hospitality as another task that can be optimized.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The members decided to fund two machines of different sizes, each optimized to produce different particles; the only question left was which lab would build which machine.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
