FIGURE OF MERIT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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)

Credits