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performante

high-performing

adjective per-for-MAHN-teh Rare
Descriptions & Qualities Quality

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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