Term: efficacy: capacity or power to produce a desired effect
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: futures contract: an agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a particular price on a stipulated future date; the contract can be sold before the settlement date
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: ragtime: music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: pipe bomb: a small homemade bomb usually contained in a metal pipe
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: pet: a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: knower: a person who knows or apprehends
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: groupware: software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: compilation: something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: glenoid fossa: the concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: activation energy: the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur
Broader: effectiveness: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Unrelated: caspase: any of a group of proteases that mediate apoptosis