different between faculty vs efficiency

English

Etymology

From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæ.k?l.ti/

Noun

faculty (plural faculties)

1. (chiefly US) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
2. A division of a university.

3. Often in the plural: an ability, power, or skill.
4. An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
5. (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
6. The members of a profession.

Usage notes

In the sense of academic staff at a university, academic staff, teaching staff or simply staff are preferred in British English.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:faculty

Related terms

• facultative

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Further reading

• faculty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• faculty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Latin efficientia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f??n?si/

Noun

efficiency (countable and uncountable, plural efficiencies)

1. The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.

   Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness
2. (dated) The quality of producing an effect or effects.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.

3. The extent to which a resource, such as electricity, is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.

   Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness

4. (US) A one-room apartment.

   Synonyms: efficiency apartment, (UK, Ireland) bedsit

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References

• efficiency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia