Sentence examples for Optimal from inspiring English sources
"optimal" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe something that is the best or most desirable alternative out of available options. For example, "The optimal solution to this problem is to reduce emissions back to pre-industrial levels."
adjective
The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction. Describing a search algorithm that always returns the best result.
- Finding the optimal balance between features and price is a common problem.
Kutsuplus lets riders specify their own desired pick-up points and destinations via smartphone; these requests are aggregated, and the app calculates an optimal route that most closely satisfies all of them.
In particular, research has shown that few Caucasians have the optimal version of this gene.
Ofcom also said that it does not intend to "examine in detail" whether there might be a "more optimal mix" of institutions for delivering public service content in the future.
Which, in a world governed by the rule of law, might be optimal: one person is the person you can spy on because you've got probable cause.
Business relations are optimal and dozens of Italian companies, from Finmeccanica to Eni, from Merloni to Calzedonia, from Pirelli to Ferrero, are well established in Britain.
Fiscal coordination is a realistic hope; optimal fiscal consolidation cannot be determined by either eurocrats or markets, no matter what the economics textbooks say.
"They claim they need a change in the Communications Act, but it already says that Ofcom has to secure optimal use of the spectrum," said Page. "If taking on board the carbon impact isn't making optimal use of the spectrum, I don't know what is".
They also involved several deteriorating patients – including a child – who received "sub-optimal care" before they died; an unexplained "patient accident outside A&E where a wheelchair collided with a van causing patient injury"; several unexpected deaths; medication errors; two newborns dying unexpectedly; and a failure to properly safeguard a vulnerable child and an adult.
This in turn has long-lasting effects on the economy.Uncertain, with a chance of sub-optimal equilibriumAlmost all these correlations derive from weather data from the past five or ten years.
But so far, problems of imperfect information and enforcement have pushed this three person game toward the sub-optimal equilibrium.
This reshuffling should lead to more efficient matches between firms and workers and a more productive media industry (again, stifle laughter).That of course suggests that the previous distribution of workers was sub-optimal.
