performant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From perform + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, and adjectives from verbs with the senses of ‘doing (the action of the verb’)), possibly modelled after informant.
Base: perform
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: more performant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most performant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to performance.
pos: adj
examples: A ballet visibly stresses the performant function even though, traditionally, it also claims to communicate some meaning. In sports, the performant function dominates more openly; but, in a symbiotic relation, it derives much of its vitality from a grafted referential function that operates through cultural signs. [...] As a rule, however, the performant function, when it is supported by truly impressive circus performances, tends to monopolize the audience's attention.
gloss: Performing well; Capable of or characterized by a high or excellent level of performance or efficiency.
pos: adj
examples: The inhabitants commonly use pacing Naggs, singularly performant in travaille, and easily kept in good case.
Nevertheless, it should be realized that most of the trials were conducted with poorly performant neutron installations (similar to old 200 kV X-ray units).
Within the Columbus program, the studies defining and optimizing the pressurized spaces must be based on extremely rigorous and highly performant modular and repetitive geometric dimensions, in compliance with ergonomic data inherent to the indispensable presence of man.
Results suggest that shear actuators can be more performant than extension ones for the control of bending operations.
In our energy-conscious society, materials and structures are required to be more performant, lightweight, and cheap.
gloss: Performing well; Capable of or characterized by a high or excellent level of performance or efficiency.
pos: adj
examples: The program ALGOLOG is highly performant: it generated 259 linear subproblems, instead of 2²³.
Recently, a pure view-based object recognition approach was proposed, that is surprisingly performant.
There are strong arguments that some features of J2EE, such as entity beans, can never be as performant in many situations as some alternatives.
Yahoo uses YUI in their products, and as a result it is highly performant and well-tested.
While we can run a plethora of tools against our code to check its quality in advance, there really is no substitute for running that code within a web browser to ensure not only that it runs correctly but also that it is performant and memory-efficient.
To keep the computational requirements within the reach of even aged and low-performant personal computers, computationally intensive operations are avoided.
Related words: perform
performability
performable
performance
performative
performatively
performativity
performatory
performed
performer
performing
Derived words: performantly
Translations:
lang: French
word: performant
lang: German
word: performant
lang: Romanian
word: performant
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: performantan