EFFICIENT - Meaning and Pronunciation

How to pronounce efficient?

This video provides examples of American English pronunciations of efficient by male and female speakers.
In addition, it explains the meaning of efficient through a dictionary definition and several visual examples.

IPA Transcription of efficient is /ɪfˈɪʃənt/.

Definition of efficient according to Wiktionary:
efficient can be an adjective or a noun

As an adjective efficient can mean:
1. Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
2. Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
3. Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
4. Effective.

As a noun efficient can mean:
A cause; something that causes an effect.

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