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FIGURE OF MERIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does figure of merit mean?
• FIGURE OF MERIT (noun)
The noun FIGURE OF MERIT has 1 sense:
1. a numerical expression representing the efficiency of a given system, material, or procedure
Familiarity information: FIGURE OF MERIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A numerical expression representing the efficiency of a given system, material, or procedure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("figure of merit" is a kind of...):
efficiency (the ratio of the output to the input of any system)
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