Efficience

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  efficience \ef*fi"cience\ ([e^]f*f[i^]sh"ens), efficiency
  \ef*fi"cien*cy\ ([e^]f*f[i^]sh"en*s[y^]), n. [L. efficientia.]
     1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or
        effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
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              The manner of this divine efficiency being far above
              us.                                   --Hooker.
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     2. (Mech.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended.
        --Rankine.
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     {efficiency of a heat engine}, the ratio of the work done by
        an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it.
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