optimum

In a sentence

Six example sentences with optimum, each labelled with its topic.

• Pricing tests found an optimum near nine dollars, where signups and revenue together beat every other figure they tried.

  Startups

• The cooling fans hit their optimum at forty percent, quiet enough for the office and cold enough for the servers.

  Technology

• Three cameras proved the optimum for the chase sequence, since two missed reactions and four crowded the narrow street.

  Movies

• The enzyme reaches its optimum near body temperature, and activity falls off sharply just a few degrees above it.

  Science

• The tax rate has an optimum, since raising it past a point shrinks the activity being taxed faster than revenue grows.

  Economics

• Her coach found an optimum of four hard sessions a week; five left her tired and three left her slower.

  Fitness

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• regime
• enforce
• institutional
• selective
• optimal
• enhanced
• motivated
• predominantly
• federal
• infer
• retained
• acceleration