optimization

English

Alternative forms

• optimisation

Etymology

From optimize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

optimization (countable and uncountable, plural optimizations)

1. The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
2. (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.

Derived terms

• combinatorial optimization
• constrained optimization
• continuous optimization
• convex optimization
• deoptimization
• discrete optimization
• global optimization
• hyperoptimization
• micro-optimization
• optimizational
• optimization problem
• overoptimization
• peephole optimization
• premature optimization
• preoptimization
• search engine optimization
• stochastic optimization
• suboptimization
• superoptimization
• tail-call optimization
• unconstrained optimization
• underoptimization

Translations

the design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense

Arabic: اِسْتِمْثَال m (istimṯāl), مُلَاءَمَة (mulāʔama) Armenian: օպտիմալացում (ōptimalacʻum) Bulgarian: оптимиза́ция f (optimizácija) Catalan: optimització f Chinese: Mandarin: 優化 / 优化 (zh) (yōuhuà) Czech: optimalizace f Danish: optimering c Dutch: optimalisatie (nl) f Finnish: optimointi (fi) French: optimisation (fr) f Galician: optimización (gl) f Georgian: ოპტიმიზაცია (oṗṭimizacia) German: Optimierung (de) Greek: βελτιστοποίηση (el) f (veltistopoíisi) Hungarian: optimalizálás (hu) Icelandic: bestun f Indonesian: optimalisasi, pengoptimalan (id) Italian: ottimizzazione (it) f Japanese: 最適化 (ja) (さいてきか, saitekika) Malay: pengoptimuman Norwegian: Bokmål: optimalisering Nynorsk: optimalisering Polish: optymalizacja (pl) f Portuguese: otimização (pt) f (Brazil), optimização (pt) m (Portugal) Romanian: optimizare (ro) f Russian: оптимиза́ция (ru) f (optimizácija) Serbo-Croatian: optimizacija (sh) f, optimalizacija f Slovak: optimalizácia f Spanish: optimización f Swedish: optimering (sv) Turkish: optimizasyon (tr) Ukrainian: оптиміза́ція (uk) f (optymizácija)

See also

• linear programming

Further reading

• mathematical optimization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia