Associations to the word «Optimal»

Wiktionary

OPTIMAL, adjective. The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction.
OPTIMAL, adjective. (artificial intelligence) Describing a search algorithm that always returns the best result.

Dictionary definition

OPTIMAL, adjective. Most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied; "an optimum return on capital"; "optimal concentration of a drug".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats