Usually means: Improving performance within given constraints.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimization: Merriam-Webster
  2. optimization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. optimization: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. optimization: Collins English Dictionary
  5. optimization: Vocabulary.com
  6. Optimization, optimization: Wordnik
  7. optimization: Wiktionary
  8. optimization: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. optimization: Dictionary.com
  10. Optimization (computer science), Optimization (disambiguation), Optimization (mathematics), Optimization (role-playing games), Optimization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. optimization: Rhymezone
  12. optimization: FreeDictionary.org
  13. optimization: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. optimization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  3. Optimization: Investopedia
  4. optimization: Legal dictionary
  5. Optimization (mathematics), Optimization: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  7. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimization: CCI Computer
  2. Optimization: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Optimization: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  4. Optimization (mathematics), optimization: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Optimization (mathematics), optimization: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Optimization: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (optimization)

noun:  The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
noun:  (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.

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