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Pareto optimal

Pareto optimal adjective: describing a situation in which the profit of one party cannot be increased without reducing the profit of another.

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.

Synonyms of Pareto optimal

Forms of Pareto optimal

alternative formPareto-optimal

Questions about Pareto optimal

What does Pareto optimal mean?
Pareto optimal means describing a situation in which the profit of one party cannot be increased without reducing the profit of another.
What part of speech is Pareto optimal?
Pareto optimal is an adjective.

Words near Pareto optimal in the dictionary

  1. Pareto frontier
  2. Pareto frontiers
  3. Pareto fronts
  4. Pareto improvement
  5. Pareto improvements
  6. Pareto optimal
  7. Pareto optimality
  8. Pareto principle
  9. Pareto's law
  10. Pareto-efficient
  11. Pareto-improvement

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