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Pareto-optimal

Pareto-optimal is the alternative form of Pareto optimal.

Meaning of Pareto optimal

Adjective

Pareto optimal (not comparable)

  1. Describing a situation in which the profit of one party cannot be increased without reducing the profit of another.
  2. Describing a strategy that cannot be made to perform better against one opposing strategy without performing less well against another.

Forms of Pareto-optimal

comparativemore Pareto-optimal
superlativemost Pareto-optimal

Questions about Pareto-optimal

What is Pareto-optimal the alternative form of?
Pareto-optimal is the alternative form of Pareto optimal.

Words near Pareto-optimal in the dictionary

  1. Pareto principle
  2. Pareto's law
  3. Pareto-efficient
  4. Pareto-improvement
  5. Pareto-improvements
  6. Pareto-optimal
  7. Paretoan
  8. Paretsky
  9. Paretskys
  10. paretymological
  11. paretymology

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