adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
operating/operational efficiency (= the efficiency with which a machine or system works )
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The computer can process this information quickly, without any loss of operating efficiency.
operational research
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
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Once the country's largest dry ski-slope is fully operational it is hoped to offer up to 70 part-time jobs to experienced skiers.
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Implementation would take at least six months, culminating in fully operational work-unit teams.
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Once fully operational , they should process 3,000 tons of effluent a day.
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What had to be sacrificed was time, since it would be years before the shuttle would be fully operational .
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Once the system is fully operational , then one may consider moving to an in-house installation if the economies are worthwhile.
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It is to be fully operational by mid-2003.
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The muscles had been fully stimulated during the growth period and Ewan had supposed they'd be fully operational immediately.
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The new office in Campbell plans to have 45 real estate agents when fully operational .
■ NOUN
amplifier
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IC1 acts as the input buffer stage, and it is a simple operational amplifier non-inverting mode circuit.
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Note that the saturation potential differences are close to the supply e.m.f.s biasing the operational amplifier .
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Differentiators based on operational amplifiers do not suffer from drift.
area
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To get to their proposed operational area the convoy had to take a difficult route.
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He was carefully tactful about his appearance in the ship's operational areas .
balance
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Customers of other banks will have more securities, fewer bank deposits and their banks will have fewer operational balances .
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The clearing banks, in addition, hold at the Bank whatever operational balances they deem necessary.
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Remember though that each bank was able to lend only by running down operational balances in order to make advances.
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It would gain deposits, matched exactly of course by additional operational balances .
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The bankers' deposits item in the balance sheet refers to the cash ratio and operational balances of the banks.
control
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It contrasts with the information needs for operational control which are well defined, detailed and accurate.
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The Special Branch, on the other hand, was under G-2 and was principally an analytical organization with no operational control .
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The knowledge workers in the insurance company were responsible for processing this mass of data to maintain operational control of the business.
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Vice President Rutskoi was named head of an operational control centre.
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The Tory back-benchers could take some comfort from the argument that it was operational control rather than manufacture of the weapons that mattered.
costs
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At least eight other such agencies that simply needed money for operational costs were denied funds.
difficulty
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Not surprisingly, this approach met with formidable operational difficulties .
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It does, however, present a number of operational difficulties that require basic research before it can be widely used.
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Both speech and handwriting recognisers suffer from operational difficulties .
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For speech recognition the principal operational difficulty to be faced is the interference to the acoustic signal from background noise.
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These are variability, segmentation and operational difficulties .
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There are certain operational difficulties associated with speech recognition.
efficiency
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The narrower is this spread, the greater will be the operational efficiency of the market.
experience
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The assessment relies largely on a combination of operational experience and professional judgement.
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Stoddard operational experience is second to none, maintaining their position as world leaders in Bonded Technology.
information
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The quantity of operational information in the industrial assurance enterprise was vast.
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In principle, now that operational information is largely electronic, it could be preserved in electronic form in its totality.
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Percentages, accounting ratios and averages are helpful in presenting the operational information in a simple manner.
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In the case of operational information , however, this is no longer necessarily nor universally true.
level
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The bottom level , the operational level, involves aspects such as maintaining road position and the use of the car controls.
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At the formal operational level , internal reflection can result in new knowledge-new construction.
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At the concrete operational level , efforts are more systematic but not fully so.
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At the operational level , the Centre has produced a Manual of Sampling practice, to be published during 1986.
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Tackle crime and disorder problems: inter-agency, partnership approaches are essential here at both the strategic and operational level .
life
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It briefly considers the prospects for extending the operational life of obsolete systems through physical restoration as well as logical simulation.
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At best such ventures can extend the operational life of obsolete systems.
matter
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This would appear to legitimise his interference in operational matters in appropriate cases.
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The implementation of section 39 is an operational matter for the chief constable.
plan
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She will be responsible for overseeing strategic and operational plans .
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No change, however, was made in the operational plan .
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This amount of effort will require the allocation of finance with a high priority in operational plans .
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Various recommendations were advanced for making changes in the operational plan , but for the most part they got nowhere.
policy
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Formal guidelines covering team objectives and operational policies were at a minimum in 1982.
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Thus, many community mental handicap teams have devised absurdly ambitious operational policies which attempt to do all things for all persons.
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The teams have similar operational policies , including an open referral system, and accept cases from a wide range of agencies.
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Setting - Two community psychogeriatric teams with similar operational policies in an inner London health district.
problem
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Fortunately, the practical operational problems were addressed in the next important report to be published.
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Forty-four percent listed subcontractor quality and pricing as the most significant operational problem or challenge.
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The operational problems of the previous 20 years legitimized comparatively limited increases in worker control and attendant changes to the management function.
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Due to the nature of our operations short-notice alterations had to be made to our notified programme because of weather or operational problems .
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Discussions deal with the co-ordination of activities and the settlement of operational problems on an adhoc basis.
procedure
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All hauliers audited for safety and operational procedures .
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Such recordings would enable them to monitor the effectiveness of certain maintenance and operational procedures by means of automatic read-out and computerised analysis.
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Of course, these strivings to realize organizational goals may become crystallized in standard operational procedures .
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They will need clear and concise operational procedures to be written.
requirement
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Agreeing operational requirements is the first and most tiresome obstacle.
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Not many companies can afford the high cost of entry or meet the stringent operational requirements .
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Designing the information systems project around management needs may, however, ignore the operational requirements .
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To fulfil operational requirements as well may lead to data being collected, validated and stored more than once.
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These systems have proved capable of meeting the specified operational requirements on a variety of fires in different categories of combustibles.
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The structure of the Group has altered radically to accommodate its changing operational requirements .
research
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It has, today, been adapted to measure the effectiveness of operational research .
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Graduates often enter other professions such as those of the actuary, accountant, and operational research scientist.
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In 1941 Williams became director of operational research at Coastal Command.
side
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Tie a length of cord to each of the lowest rings, placing the shortest length nearest the operational side .
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Similarly on the operational side , separate investigators can pursue different subjects.
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In the early seventies an interesting development on our operational side was the emergence of illegal immigrant running by sea.
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It clearly felt that the police authority should have no control over general policy or the operational side of police work.
stage
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Their solution was of course a key objective of the Powick project, which was still at an early operational stage in 1979.
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The major affective constructions during the stage of formal operations build on those of the concrete operational stage.
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Operations become truly logical during the concrete operational stage .
system
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The idea that a baseline need only be established immediately prior to delivery of an operational system is considered to be unsound.
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Benefits from operational systems can be measured, although not easily and not many organisations carry out thorough evaluations.
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An operational System should be able to forecast, detect and react to dangerous pollution levels within a short period.
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We will wish to introduce clear guidance and operational systems to expedite this as soon as possible.
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The operational system appeared, to a certain extent, to be fairly regulated with highly structured and defined job descriptions.
thought
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Whereas concrete operational thought is logical thought, it is restricted to the concrete world.
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Concrete operational thought is reversible thought.
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The transformation from the latter part of preoperational thought to early concrete operational thought is not an abrupt one.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At least eight countries are known to have operational nuclear weapons.
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the bank's operational budget
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The satellite is expected to be operational by next week.
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The terminal is fully operational and airlines will begin using it next week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In education operational time scales tend to be longer than commercial ones, certainly so far as joint projects are concerned.
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It has, today, been adapted to measure the effectiveness of operational research.
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Lothian Region and Edinburgh District councils are expected to approve the scheme next month and it could be operational within 18 months.
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Nor will they instruct you about specific strategic, organizational, or operational choices peculiar to your own organization.
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Once the country's largest dry ski-slope is fully operational it is hoped to offer up to 70 part-time jobs to experienced skiers.
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The budget is an operational statement in monetary terms.
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The major affective constructions during the stage of formal operations build on those of the concrete operational stage.
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This provides us with a very operational view concerning these matters.