Crossword clues for optimize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
optimize \op"ti*mize`\ ([o^]p"t[i^]*m[imac]z`) v. t. [imp. & p. p. optimized ([o^]p"t[i^]*m[imac]zd`); p. pr. & vb. n. optimizing ([o^]p"t[i^]*m[imac]`z[i^]ng).]
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To make as useful, effective, or functional as possible; as, to optimize the speed of a computer program.
Syn: optimise.
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To get the most out of; to use to the best effect; to exploit fully; as, to optimize one's return on investment.
Syn: make optimal, optimise.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, "to act as an optimist," back-formation from optimist. Meaning "to make the most of" is first recorded 1857. Related: Optimized; optimizing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context originally intransitive English) To act optimistically or as an optimist. 2 (context transitive English) To make (something) optimal. 3 (context transitive English) To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program. 4 (context intransitive English) To become optimal.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Optimize was an American monthly business magazine published between November 2001 and June 2007.
Usage examples of "optimize".
These heavily optimized fake stem cells biological robots in all but name spawn like cancer, ejecting short-lived anucleated secondary cells.
Like its behavior, its body was optimized for a lifestyle dominated by inexorable predation, with long, powerful legs for instantaneous acceleration and a streamlined rib cage built around a tremendous set of lungs for sustained speed.
To optimize maneuverability, a computer automatically adjusted the flaps and slats when the machine was maneuvering in the subsonic and transonic speed ranges.
He taught her how to tell time and direction from the stars, and she showed him how to open the expert software in the boards to optimize them for night travel.
This is known as coevolution, and humans understand the concept on a truly cellular level, since so much of organic life on Old Earth had been created and optimized by the reciprocal coevolutionary dance.
Some of them were text, with the elaborate numbering system of tech spec -- some individual lines within paragraphs had their own version numbers -- and some, which took just a fraction of a second longer to resolve onscreen, were deep three-dimensional diagrams and schematics optimized for looking at, and through, with VR glasses or contacts.
Small variations in the parameters of the progeny universes will therefore lead to some that are even more optimized for black hole production than their parent universe, and have an even greater number of offspring universes of their own.
It's computronium, matter optimized at the atomic level to support computing, and they're all running uploads – Dad figured our own solar system could support, uh, about a hundred billion times as many inhabitants as Earth.
Deep in the hot thinking depths of the solar system, vast new intellects come up with a new theory of wealth that optimizes resource allocation better than the previously pervasive Free Market 1.
Poorly optimized circuitry, excessively complex low-bandwidth sensors, messily global variables –.
The command bridge was optimized for flatscreen viewing, the conference table folded out like a jackknife, all seats facing the hi-res screen.
It seemed natural to squeeze every worm passage for the maximum fee, by coordinating every worm mouth to optimize traffic.
The designs they feed us from Earth keep changing, and we're trying to optimize our manufacturing too, aiming for the minimum weight to provide a given structural strength.
The ship's metachip-augmented parallel processors solved and optimized the set of equations represented in a thousand-square matrix of subspace points, dropped out of that subspace into Decomposition, rode the collapsing funnel of spaces with a new optimization problem to choose and resolve every tenth of a second.
Easiest to conform to one plan and speak one tongue optimized for your comprehension.