MEANING
Adjust a process or design to achieve the best result under its constraints.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- optimize performance
- optimize a schedule
On the page
The schedule was optimized for travel time rather than convenience.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- optimize
- Past tense
- optimized
- Past participle
- optimized
- Present participle
- optimizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- optimize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are optimizing
- Present perfect
- have/has optimized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been optimizing
- Past
- optimized
- Past continuous
- was/were optimizing
- Past perfect
- had optimized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been optimizing
- Future
- will optimize
- Future continuous
- will be optimizing
- Future perfect
- will have optimized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been optimizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: optimize; optimizes; optimized; optimized; optimizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: optimizes.
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