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efficacy

/ef-i-kuh-see/US // ˈɛf ɪ kə si //UK // (ˈɛfɪkəsɪ) //

功效,效力,效能,效用

Related Words

adequacy足够,足够的,充足,适当effectiveness效益,效果,效力,效能competence能力,职权,权限,功力virtue德行,美德,德性,道德potency效力,效价,效能,功效vigor活力,劲头,生机,朝气蓬勃use使用,用,运用,利用strength强度,力量,实力,优势force力量,力,权力,力度ability能力,能,力,具备了一定的能力power权力,功率,电源,动力efficaciousness效力,功效,效能,效率energy能源,能量,能源方面,能源问题influence影响力,影响,势力effect效果,影响,作用,效应weight重量capability能力,性能,功能,功能性performance业绩,性能,表现,绩效success成功,成功的,成功案例,成功的例子sufficiency充分性,充足性,充足,足够的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ef·fi·ca·cies.

    • : capacity for producing a desired result or effect; effectiveness: a remedy of great efficacy.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounefficiency; productiveness
Forms: efficacies
Synonyms
adequacy足够,足够的,充足,适当competence能力,职权,权限,功力effectiveness效益,效果,效力,效能potency效力,效价,效能,功效virtue德行,美德,德性,道德ability能力,能,力,具备了一定的能力capability能力,性能,功能,功能性capableness能力,力量,胜任能力capacity能力,容量,容积率,容貌effect效果,影响,作用,效应efficaciousness效力,功效,效能,效率energy能源,能量,能源方面,能源问题force力量,力,权力,力度influence影响力,影响,势力performance业绩,性能,表现,绩效power权力,功率,电源,动力strength强度,力量,实力,优势success成功,成功的,成功案例,成功的例子sufficiency充分性,充足性,充足,足够的use使用,用,运用,利用vigor活力,劲头,生机,朝气蓬勃weight重量
Antonyms
inadequacy不足,不足之处,不足的地方,不够ineffectiveness无效,无效的,无效性,无效率enervation保养,保育,保存,保留failure失败,故障,失败者,失效idleness怠惰,懒惰,怠工,闲置impotence阳痿,阳萎,性无能,阳具inability无能力,无能,无力,无能为力inactivity不活泼,不活动,不活跃,不活跃性incapacity无能力,无行为能力,丧失能力,无能incompetence不称职,无能,不胜任,不合格inefficiency低效率,效率低下,无效率,低效lethargy暮气沉沉,昏睡,昏睡症,嗜睡症powerlessness无力感,无能为力,无力,无能weakness弱点,虚弱,弱势,虚弱性inefficacy效率低下,无效,效率不高,无效的unproductiveness不生产性,不生产,无效率,不生产力uselessness无用,无用性,无用的,无用的东西

Examples

  • Initial trials should also be evaluated by an International Scientific Advisory Panel—yet to be established—for safety and efficacy before receiving the final go-ahead.

  • These trials allow scientists to determine the vaccines’ efficacy and identify side effects that may not have appeared in phase 1 or phase 2 trials.

  • We need to assess safety, and we won’t know the efficacy part until much later.

  • Meanwhile, other experts have questioned the efficacy of Hong Kong’s mass testing as a preventative measure since people are still free to circulate around the city.

  • Just last week, FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn cited misleading statistics about the efficacy of using blood plasma to treat severe Covid-19.

  • The eating disorder field remains divided over the potential efficacy of such measures.

  • On average, the vaccine has an efficacy of about 60 percent.

  • The efficacy of bandying threats of going to hell met its match in the Civil War.

  • If there were a pill with such poor efficacy, it might be considered malpractice to prescribe it.

  • Most Pennsylvanians now support a moratorium on capital punishment until its efficacy can be determined.

  • The cow happily recovered, which the widow entirely attributed to the efficacy of her pastor's prayer.

  • It is, therefore, with pleasure I make known the following recipe, which I am assured has been tried with efficacy.

  • Who can understand its nature, its operations, the sufficiency which is not sufficient, and the efficacy which is ineffectual.

  • The natural reverence for their remains soon passed into a superstitious veneration and belief in their miraculous efficacy.

  • As such, the efficacy of prayer in their regard must be judged according to the principles applying to the latter.

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