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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope