performance

Definitions of performance
  1. noun
    the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
    synonyms: capacité
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    antonyms:
    incapacité
    lack of intellectual power
    type of:
    capacité, habileté
    possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
  2. noun
    the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
    synonyms: accomplisement
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    types:
    mécanique
    the technical aspects of doing something
    type of:
    acte, action
    something done (usually as opposed to something said)
  3. noun
    a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
    synonyms: fonctionnement, opération, procédure
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    type of:
    travail
    activity directed toward making or doing something
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