optimization
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French optim(isme)
English optimize
English optimization
Pronunciation
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
optimization (countable and uncountable, plural optimizations)
- The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
- (programming) The reduction of a program or algorithm to its most efficient form, as during compilation, by removing unused portions of code and improving the speed or resource usage of others.
Derived terms
- answer engine optimization
- combinatorial optimization
- constrained optimization
- continuous optimization
- convex optimization
- deoptimization
- discrete optimization
- global optimization
- hyperoptimization
- micro-optimization
- optimizational
- optimization problem
- overoptimization
- peephole optimization
- premature optimization
- preoptimization
- search engine optimization
- stochastic optimization
- suboptimization
- superoptimization
- tail-call optimization
- unconstrained optimization
- underoptimization
Translations
the design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense
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See also
Further reading
- mathematical optimization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia