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        "1398, “making,” from Old French, from Latin efficientem, nominative efficiēns, participle of efficere (“work out, accomplish”) (see effect). Meaning “productive, skilled” is from 1787. Efficiency apartment is first recorded 1930, American English. 1"
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              "mean": "making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy\n2013 June 1,  “A better waterworks”, in  The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic  real kidneys  . But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.\nAn efficient process would automate all the routine work.\nOur cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk."
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              "mean": "expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input\nThe motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature."
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              "mean": "causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent)\n1614,  Walter Ralegh ,  The Historie of the World , London:    William Stansby for Walter Burre, , →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):\nIt was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.\nOwnership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained"
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              "mean": "(proscribed, old use) effective, efficacious\n1801,  Robert Southey,  “(please specify the page)”, in  Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London:    or T N Longman and O Rees, , by Biggs and Cottle, , →OCLC:Ye wake no more to anguish;‥ ye have borneThe Chosen, the Destroyer!‥ soon his handShall strike the efficient blow;Soon shaking off your penal forms, shall ye,With songs of joy, amid the Eden groves,Hymn the Deliverer’s praise!\n1856, William Dexter Wilson, An Elementary Treatise on Logic\nThe Efficient Cause is that from which emanates the force that produces the Effect"
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