"optimize" meaning in English

See optimize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/ [US], /ˈɒptɪmaɪz/ [UK] Audio: en-us-optimize.ogg [US] Forms: optimize [canonical], optimizes [third-person, singular], optimized [past], optimized [past, participle], optimizing [present, participle]
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  1. If you optimize something, you make it the best that it can be, or the most efficient that it can be.
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