different between effectiveness vs optimization

English

Etymology

effective +? -ness

Pronunciation

Noun

effectiveness (countable and uncountable, plural effectivenesses)

1. The property of being effective, of achieving results.

   The effectiveness of the drug was well established.

2. The capacity or potential for achieving results.
3. The degree to which something achieves results.

   He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.

   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[1]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     United were having more possession but a sign of the effectiveness of Liverpool's defence was that it took the visitors 76 minutes to force Mignolet into serious action, when he dived to punch away a shot from substitute Nani.

Related terms

• effect
• effective
• effectivity
• effector
• effectual
• effectuate
• efficacious
• efficacity
• efficacy
• efficiency
• efficient

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• optimisation

Etymology

optimize +? -ation

Noun

optimization (countable and uncountable, plural optimizations)

1. The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
2. (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

Translations

See also

• linear programming

Further reading

• mathematical optimization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia