Usually means: Best or most favorable condition.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word optimum:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. optimum: Merriam-Webster
  3. optimum, optimum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. optimum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. optimum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. optimum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Optimum, optimum: Wordnik
  8. optimum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. optimum: Wiktionary
  10. optimum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. optimum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. optimum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. optimum: Dictionary.com
  14. optimum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. optimum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Optimum (disambiguation), Optimum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. optimum: Rhymezone
  18. Optimum (nt), optimum, optimum, optimum, optimum (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. optimum: FreeDictionary.org
  20. optimum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. optimum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Optimum: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. optimum: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. optimum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Optimum: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)

(Note: See optima as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances.
noun:  (geology, paleontology, climatology) Any long period of time marked by a persistently warm climate; a climatic optimum.
adjective:  The best or most advantageous; surpassing all others.

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