performante
high-performing
adjective per-for-MAHN-teh Rare
Origin: French performant, ultimately from English 'perform'
Also means
efficient
Usage Note
Performante is a recent anglicism widely used in Italian marketing, technology, and business writing to describe a product or system that delivers high performance. It is invariable for gender (un motore performante / una macchina performante). Purists sometimes prefer ad alte prestazioni, but performante is now firmly established in technical Italian.
Examples
"Il nuovo processore è molto più performante del precedente."
Natural Translation
The new processor is much more high-performing than the previous one.
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