"optimise" meaning in All languages combined

See optimise on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/ [US], /ˈɒptɪmaɪz/ [UK] Audio: en-us-optimize.ogg [US] Forms: optimise [canonical], optimises [third-person, singular], optimised [past], optimised [past, participle], optimising [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb|optimis|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you optimise something, you make it the best that it can be, or the most efficient that it can be.
    Sense id: simple-optimise-en-verb-sphqliNn
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