optimization
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Intel’s gameplay site lists graphics optimizations for a vast swath of games that could probably be added to the app in fairly short order. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, "Intel's gaming odyssey takes voyage with a slick new Graphics Command Center," 20 Mar. 2019 But there’s more to energy-optimization than buying a new fridge. — Barbara Eldredge, Curbed, "How to save on utility bills," 25 Jan. 2019 Under the new venture, Vodafone Business customers will have access to IBM’s cloud offerings, including automation, optimization and artificial intelligence. — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, "Vodafone Enters Cloud Agreement With IBM, Keeping 5G in Mind," 18 Jan. 2019 Google promises further mitigations and memory optimizations in future Chrome updates. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, "Chrome gobbles much more RAM due to Google's 'Site Isolation' protection for Spectre CPU flaws," 12 July 2018 Craig Landry, currently senior vice president for revenue optimization, was promoted to executive vice president for operations, effective Jan. 1. — Tatyana Shumsky, WSJ, "Air Canada Promotes CFO as Part of Management Shuffle," 19 Dec. 2018 As one of the few Android phones that doesn’t use a Snapdragon chip, Huawei has an Apple-like level of optimization and architecture in the Mate 20s, with promised speed and power efficiency that blow away last year’s models. — Michael Simon, PCWorld, "Huawei Mate 20 Mate 20 Pro hands on: Enter the Matrix with the do-it-all Android phones," 16 Oct. 2018 Oxman compares the swarm of Fiberbots to ants and spiders, which are able to build complex self-supporting structures rapidly and with an eye for optimization. — Liz Stinson, Curbed, "Watch a swarm of robots build a fiber structure," 12 Oct. 2018 Just as responsibility for optimization would decompose downward, so too would responsibility for reliability. — David Roberts, Vox, "Clean energy technologies threaten to overwhelm the grid. Here’s how it can adapt.," 30 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'optimization.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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