Performance
Meaning of Performance
The act of performing; how well something works or someone does.
ما معنى كلمة Performance بالعربي؟
الأداء أو العرض
🎭🏆 الأداء أو العرض الفني أو الوظيفي؛ مستوى الإنجاز والكفاءة في تنفيذ مهمة أو عمل معين 🏆📈
قصة GL: تحسن الأداء المُذهل للمشاركين يُثبت فعالية التعلم الجيني - الأداء الوظيفي يتضاعف، الإنتاجية ترتفع، والمشارك الذي كان يُعاني من صعوبات تعلم أصبح أداؤه متفوقاً لدرجة ترشيحه لمنصب نائب مدير خلال 5 سنوات فقط 🚀
Synonyms & related words
Performance in a sentence
Performance on memory tasks rose across the protocol.
Performance targets guide the team.
Performance obligations are set out in the contract.
Performance improves with practice.
Origin of Performance
From Anglo-French performaunce, from performer, Old French parfournir 'to carry out'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, performance also means a show. GL tracks performance with clear data.
Performance audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "Performance" — a noun, pronounced /pəˈfɔːməns/, with the stress on "for".
Narrator: A performance is the act of carrying something out, or the standard to which it is carried out.
Narrator: In plain English, it is either a show you give in front of people, or how well something or someone does a job.
Narrator: It comes from the verb to perform, which entered English from Anglo-Norman French parfourmer, meaning to carry through to completion, with the noun ending added later.
Narrator: A very common collocation is performance review, which describes a formal assessment of how well an employee has been working.
Narrator: It differs from achievement, because an achievement is a single result you can point to, while performance is the ongoing quality of the doing itself.
Narrator: We also speak of a live performance, or say that someone put on quite a performance, meaning they made an unnecessary fuss.
Narrator: Theatre, music, sport, business management, engineering and software development all rely on this word every single day.
Narrator: So remember: performance is both the doing and the measure of how well it was done.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Why does one word cover both a ballet and a database?
Speaker B: Because PERFORMANCE comes from old French parfourmer, to carry something right through, and both a dancer and a database are carrying a task through to the end.
Speaker A: So the shared idea is completion rather than applause?
Speaker B: Exactly right, and that is why engineers and actors can use the same word without confusion.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Her performance as Lady Macbeth was electrifying" — that is a stage show. "The team's performance improved after the new manager arrived" — that is quality of work. "We measure page performance in milliseconds" — that is technical speed.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with an o in the middle, performance, never performence, and remember it takes no e before the ending. It is countable for shows, two performances tonight, but uncountable when you mean general efficiency.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Execution is the businesslike cousin, presentation is the near twin on stage, and efficiency is the engineer's alternative — yet performance keeps its theatrical charm!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "performance" in AI prompts — useful for profiling a slow web application and for writing staff appraisal summaries.
Speaker A: How does it apply to a slow website?
Speaker B: Ask the model to audit the front end with speed in mind.
Prompt: Review this React component and list the five changes most likely to improve rendering performance on mobile devices.
Speaker A: What about databases?
Speaker B: Use it to hunt down expensive queries.
Prompt: Analyse this SQL query and explain how indexing could improve its performance on a table of ten million rows.
Speaker A: Can it help with people rather than machines?
Speaker B: Yes, it works beautifully for management writing.
Prompt: Draft a fair and constructive performance review for a junior developer who writes clean code but misses deadlines.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Let's have it set up monitoring.
Prompt: Design a dashboard specification that tracks the key performance metrics of our checkout service, including latency, error rate and throughput.
Frequently asked questions about Performance
What does Performance mean?
The act of performing; how well something works or someone does.
ما معنى كلمة Performance بالعربي؟
الأداء أو العرض — 🎭🏆 الأداء أو العرض الفني أو الوظيفي؛ مستوى الإنجاز والكفاءة في تنفيذ مهمة أو عمل معين 🏆📈
How do you pronounce Performance?
Performance is pronounced /pəˈfɔːməns/ and is used as a noun.
How is Performance used in a sentence?
Performance on memory tasks rose across the protocol.
What are synonyms of Performance?
show, execution, output, achievement, display, functioning.