efficient means
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efficient
adjective
uk/ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/us/ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/
working or operating quickly and effectively in an ...
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mean
noun[S]
uk/miːn/us/miːn/
mathematicsspecialized
the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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(Definition ofefficientandmeanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Loyalty, and the acceptance of one's right to decide, are far more efficient means of enjoying power.
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In conclusion, organized farmer research is an efficient means to cropping system improvement.
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For example, table-based logic programming can be used as an efficient means of performing explicit model checking.
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Even when the information is documented, brief conversations to address very specific queries can be a much more efficient means of obtaining information.
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The treelet-parsing learning mechanism is simply an efficient means of delivering this linguistic information to learners at the rockface.
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An efficient means of locating these in more lightly infected hosts may resolve this problem.
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He was convinced from the outset that the only efficient means were the division of labour and the separation of different processes.
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Increasing proportions of women have been using efficient means of contraception and using it earlier in marriage.
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Firstly, the international nursery system is a rapid and efficient means of validating germplasm resistance containing new gene combinations.
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To create less energy-intensive systems, nitrogen-use efficiency must be increased by management systems that improve efficient means of fertilization, such as nutrient recycling and retention.
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Information technologies, whatever else their impact, do make for a more efficient means of centralizing and creating greater efficiency within political and bureaucratic structures.
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Surface waves were subsequently shown to be an efficient means of sustaining reproducible and quiescent plasmas of interest for many applications, in particular materials processing.
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Finally, it should be noted that the pure-surround hypothesis appears to be the most physiologically efficient means of generating a chromatic signal to large-field stimuli.
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One also could extend this framework to introduce a wider array of financing instruments in order to determine efficient means of financing investment subsidies to the private sector.
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For the case of cross-domain analogies, if the analogous product is stored in a general form, then a domain specific representation is the most efficient means to retrieve it.
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Its function is to provide an efficient means for moving a continuous stream of sampled data between a workstation's main memory and an application-specific analog daughtercard.
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In this case, efficient means that more organically used farm land could be subsidized with a given budget (especially in countries with intensively used farm land).
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To address the social demands for food and expand production and improve yields, farmers needed easier, faster, less labor-intensive and more efficient means of managing crops.
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