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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
optimal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
level
▪ A policy stronger than the optimal level will be a less effective stabilizer.
▪ Working with the purchasing department, the production manager ensures that plant inventories are maintained at their optimal level.
output
▪ This yields: In both cases the proportion is closer to the optimal proportion than the output to the optimal output.
▪ The result, as shown in Figure 6-1a, is that the equilibrium output Qe is larger than the optimal output Q0.
▪ What divergences arise between equilibrium and optimal output when a spillover costs and b spillover benefits are present?
▪ Hence, the equilibrium output in a competitive market is also identified as the optimal output.
solution
▪ This seems to be the optimal solution for the male.
▪ This gives Table 10.1, so the optimal solution is still but the optimal value is.
▪ The optimal solution does not change but the optimal tableau has one less column.
▪ The reader can verify that this optimal solution is.
▪ When the equality is exactly satisfied, either inequality can be used but the optimal solution will not change.
▪ In this chapter, we will study the effect of changes in the data on the optimal solution.
▪ Thus March and Simon accept that bureaucrats will not necessarily seek the optimal solution, but that which satisfies.
▪ This will force x i j to be zero in any optimal solution.
strategy
▪ Note that the average payment following the optimal strategy is around three times greater than the average payment following the myopic strategy.
▪ The individual's optimal strategy under such consideration has a reservation wage property.
▪ Is behaviour consistent with the optimal strategy?
value
▪ This gives Table 10.1, so the optimal solution is still but the optimal value is.
▪ Simulated annealing uses random perturbations to shake the parameter values out of a local optimum so that globally optimal values may be found.
▪ Now, suppose that deleterious mutations reduce survival below this optimal value.
▪ The comparative static propositions listed above can be tested with respect to these particular optimal values.
▪ The aim is to discover how far mutation has depressed survival and fertility below their optimal values.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ageing could evolve as part of an optimal life history.
▪ Existing catalytic converters can produce extremely low hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide outputs only in optimal conditions.
▪ It presupposes that the functionally optimal capitalist state is in some senses class-neutral.
▪ Note that the average payment following the optimal strategy is around three times greater than the average payment following the myopic strategy.
▪ The optimal position for households is represented by point B, while point A represents the optimal position for firms.
▪ This is a mathematical model designed to determine the optimal amount of inventory that a firm should carry.
▪ To make the optimal decision, I visually scan as many as possible of the various alternatives.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
optimal

optimal \op"ti*mal\, a. Best possible; most desirable; optimum; as, the optimal concentration of a drug.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
optimal

"most favorable," 1890, from Latin optimus (see optimum). Originally a word in biology. Related: Optimally.

Wiktionary
optimal

a. 1 The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction. 2 # (context artificial intelligence English) Describing a search algorithm that always returns the best result.

WordNet
optimal

adj. most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied; "an optimum return on capital"; "optimal concentration of a drug" [syn: optimum]

Usage examples of "optimal".

SNP profile that bioinformatics or some other data suggests will be optimal.

These were optimal for a robot, even a humaniform, with the added benefit of reducing her energy use to a minimum.

The hypercharged lithium-anode battery had a life of fifty hours at an optimal cruising speed of three knots.

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These were tactics the Army had planned to use against Warsaw Pact tanks if a shooting war had erupted during the Cold War, and they seemed optimal for the sort of desert war the United States had waged when it evicted Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

After all, the walls of the monastery mark off a place of prayerful silence intended to create optimal conditions for meditative living.

The smart cars had calmly packed themselves up in an optimal queuing pattern, but their frustrated drivers were pounding at their horns, and heat haze rose in a shimmer in the humid air.

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Still, taking on two Migs with an aircraft in less than optimal condition was not something I thought of as good odds.

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SMU, got herself almost lined up, overcorrected, corrected again, and with about ten feet to go was only a few feet off the optimal location.

The reproduction rate of Spirulina is 40X per 24 hour period, therefore one ton becomes 40 tons in one day under the most optimal conditions.

What are the optimal coatings for protection against atomic oxygen and can they be coated onto carbon nanotubes and epoxy?

What’s more, some say the ratio of brain size to body size—the so-called cephalization, which is a more accurate measurement of intelligence than mere brain size when projected across an entire species—is also more optimal by a factor of point twelve.