optimum
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- n most favorable conditions or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances
- s most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied
an optimum return on capital
- Her concept: packaging in which food can keep growing during shipping to the supermarket so that it arrives ready to be harvested, in a state of optimum freshness.
- Though there's no medically recommended optimum level of the vitamin, "throughout human evolution when the vitamin D system was developing, the 'natural' level.
- Most Americans don't take in enough EPA and DHA to maintain optimum health.