optimization

English

Alternative forms

• optimisation

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi

Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos

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Latin optimus

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.

Latin -ismusbor.

French -isme

French optim(isme)

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Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istabor.

French -iste

French optimistebor.

English optimistbf.

English optimize

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English optimization

From optimize + -ation.

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /-məˈzeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

optimization (countable and uncountable, plural optimizations)

1. The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
2. (programming) The reduction of a program or algorithm to its most efficient form, as during compilation, by removing unused portions of code and improving the speed or resource usage of others.

Derived terms

• answer engine optimization
• combinatorial optimization
• constrained optimization
• continuous optimization
• convex optimization
• deoptimization
• discrete optimization
• global optimization
• hyperoptimization
• micro-optimization
• optimizational
• optimization problem
• overoptimization
• peephole optimization
• premature optimization
• preoptimization
• search engine optimization
• stochastic optimization
• suboptimization
• superoptimization
• tail-call optimization
• unconstrained optimization
• underoptimization

Translations

the design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense

• Arabic: اِسْتِمْثَال m (istimṯāl), مُلَاءَمَة (mulāʔama)
• Armenian: օպտիմալացում (ōptimalacʻum)
• Bulgarian: оптимиза́ция f (optimizácija)
• Catalan: optimització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 優化 / 优化 (zh) (yōuhuà)

• Czech: optimalizace f
• Danish: optimering c
• Dutch: optimalisatie (nl) f
• Finnish: optimointi (fi)
• French: optimisation (fr) f
• Galician: optimización (gl) f
• Georgian: ოპტიმიზაცია (oṗṭimizacia)
• German: Optimierung (de)
• Greek: βελτιστοποίηση (el) f (veltistopoíisi)
• Hungarian: optimalizálás (hu)
• Icelandic: bestun f
• Indonesian: optimalisasi, pengoptimalan (id)
• Italian: ottimizzazione (it) f
• Japanese: 最適化 (ja) (さいてきか, saitekika)
• Malay: pengoptimuman
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: optimalisering

  Nynorsk: optimalisering

• Polish: optymalizacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: otimização (pt) f (Brazil), optimização (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: optimizare (ro) f
• Russian: оптимиза́ция (ru) f (optimizácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: optimizacija (sh) f, optimalizacija f
• Slovak: optimalizácia f
• Spanish: optimización f
• Swedish: optimering (sv)
• Turkish: optimizasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: оптиміза́ція (uk) f (optymizácija)

See also

• linear programming

Further reading

• mathematical optimization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia