You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
EFFICIENCES
Noun
efficiences
plural of efficience
Source: Wiktionary
EFFICIENCE
Ef*fi"cience, Ef*fi"cien*cy, n. Etym: [L. efficientia.]
1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency. The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us. Hooker.
2. (Mech.)
Definition: The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Rankine. Efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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