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teho.

power, effect, effectivity, effectiveness

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈteho/[ˈt̪e̞ɦo̞]
  1. power, effect, effectivity, effectiveness

  2. power (measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy)

  3. throughput (rate of processing)

  4. ellipsis of teho-osasto (“intensive care unit”) (especially in the external locative cases: adessive, allative, ablative)

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis · informal
  5. Indicates boosting of the base term in one way or other: power, intensive, intense, super-, etc.

    in-compounds
Where this word comes from

teh(t)- + -o, probably from the same root as tehdas (and possibly tehdä). The forms with -ht- are likely original (compare Karelian tehto), and the forms with -h- may be generalized by analogy from the weak stem, although according to SSA, sound symbolicism may have also played a part.

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