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optimum  adj.  Best possible or most desirable; usually under a restriction expressed or implied; as, an optimum return on capital; optimum concentration of a drug; an optimum result.
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"Optimum" Quotes from Famous Books



... in an inarticulate manner, was full of this just notion; and all his life was spent in organizing it to a practical fact. The more of potential battle, the more of life is in us: a MAXIMUM of potential battle, therefore; and let it be the OPTIMUM in quality! How Friedrich Wilhelm cared, day and night, with all his heart and all his soul, to bring his Army to the supreme pitch, we have often heard; and the more we look into his ways, the more we are impressed ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume V. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... strongly acid or alkaline are employed, it is however necessary to fix the structure much more strongly. But here, too, an excess as well as an insufficiency must be guarded against. It is easy with the few staining fluids that are in use to ascertain the optimum for each. ...
— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich

... epicura sit, sed Iliada etiam alque Aeneada aequet, imo superet. Sed novimus eodem tempore viri illius maximi non semper accuratissimas esse censuras, nec ad severissimam critices normam exactas: illo judice id plerumque optimum est, quod nunc prae manibus habet, et in ...
— The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Vol. I. - With a Life of the Author • Sir Walter Scott

... called the perfect right, the right of domain, the eminent right, the heroic or quiritaire right,—in Latin, jus perfectum, jus optimum, jus quiritarium, jus dominii,—while ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon

... 1. The optimum sugar concentration for germination of Corylus pollen is around 25% by weight in 1.5 per cent agar ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 • Various



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