Usually means: Best possible outcome under constraints.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word optimal:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. optimal: Merriam-Webster
  3. optimal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. optimal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. optimal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. optimal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Optimal, optimal: Wordnik
  8. optimal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. optimal: Wiktionary
  10. optimal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. optimal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. optimal: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. optimal: Dictionary.com
  14. optimal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. optimal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Optimal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. optimal: Rhymezone
  18. optimal, optimal, optimal(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. optimal: FreeDictionary.org
  20. optimal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. optimal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Optimal: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. optimal: Legal dictionary
  3. optimal: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. optimal: Encyclopedia
  3. optimal: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  3. optimal: Medical dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OPTIMAL: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. optimal: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction.
adjective:  (artificial intelligence) Describing a search algorithm that always returns the best result.
noun:  The best of its kind

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