English-Portuguese translations for efficient

• eficaz
  Possuímos um sistema de saúde eficaz. We have an efficient health system.
  Um mercado de comércio retalhista mais eficaz e mais justo ( A more efficient and fairer retail market (
  Claramente, o que significa eficaz? What does 'efficient' mean in plain language?
• eficiente
  A própria Comissão foi eficiente. Even the Commission has been efficient.
  Energia - tecnologias eficientes; 2. Energy - efficient technologies; 2.
  A nossa eficiente equipa já viu isso. Our efficient staff have already seen to that.

Definition of efficient

• making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy
• expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input
• causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression ''efficient cause'= causative factor or agent
• effective
• a cause; something that causes an effect

Examples

• An efficient process would automate all the routine work
• Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk
• The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature
• Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained

Related words

• coefficient
• inefficient
• efficiently
• ultraefficient
• efficientize
• energy-efficient
• efficient consumer response
• efficient driving
• coefficient of contingency