optimization

English

Alternative forms

• optimisation

Etymology

optimize +‎ -ation

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

Derived terms

• discrete optimization
• combinatorial optimization
• constrained optimization
• continuous optimization

• convex optimization
• global optimization
• optimization problem
• stochastic optimization

• tail-call optimization
• unconstrained optimization

Translations

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

• Armenian: օպտիմալացում (ōptimalacʿum)
• Bulgarian: оптимиза́ция f (optimizácija)
• Catalan: optimització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 優化 (zh), 优化 (zh) (yōuhuà)

• Czech: optimalizace f
• Dutch: optimalisatie (nl) f
• Finnish: optimointi (fi)
• French: optimisation (fr) f
• Galician: optimización (gl) f
• German: Optimierung (de)
• Greek: βελτιστοποίηση (el) f (veltistopoíisi)

• Hungarian: optimalizálás (hu)
• Italian: ottimizzazione (it) f
• Japanese: 最適化 (さいてきか, saitekika)
• Polish: optymalizacja 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
• Spanish: optimización f
• Swedish: optimering (sv)
• Turkish: optimizasyon (tr)

See also

• linear programming

Further reading

• mathematical optimization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia