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- Efficiency - n. - The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
- Efficiency - n. - The ratio of useful work to energy expended.
- Stop - v. t. - To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
- Duty - n. - The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
- Synergist - n. - A remedy which has an action similar to that of another remedy, and hence increases the efficiency of that remedy when combined with it.
- Draw - v. i. - To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.
- Expeditious - a. - Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger.
- Feeble - superl. - Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
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