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  • noun Alternative spelling of optimization.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of rendering optimal

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Examples

  • However, as David Ricardo observed almost 200 years ago, economic optimisation is about comparative advantage.

    Girls, Mathematics, and Sexual Equality Peggy 2008

  • However, as David Ricardo observed almost 200 years ago, economic optimisation is about comparative advantage.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Peggy 2008

  • If search is personalised according to your browsing habits, SEO becomes an act of personal tailoring, rather than keyword optimisation.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Rob Jackson 2011

  • For both Facebook and Twitter, it is pretty obvious that the optimisation is a great leap forward in usage of these apps via the family TV, so much better than simply using the Opera browser through the Nintendo Wii for example.

    iTWire - Latest Headlines 2009

  • After paying almost a 1000 dollars for keyword optimisation from an independant specialist.

    Digital Point Forums 2009

  • As the book points out a bit further on, Clojure doesn't perform automatic tail call optimisation so we end up with a stack overflow exception if we run the function with a big enough input value.

    Planet TW 2009

  • Discuss Title tag optimisation in the Google Optimization forum on SEO Chat.

    unknown title 2008

  • While we refer to this as 'optimisation', we understand that this term can make the process sound more difficult than it really is.

    Turkeys, thanks, and taxes 2008

  • While we refer to this as 'optimisation', we understand that this term can make the process sound more difficult than it really is.

    Optimisation Essentials (Part I) 2008

  • We caught up with Ivan Heneghan, a Dublin-based AdSense optimisation specialist, to learn how 'optimisation' differs from 'optimization'.

    Meet Ivan the optimiser -- but please, no paparazzi 2006

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