Definition of Proficiency

1. Noun. The quality of having great facility and competence.

Generic synonyms: Competence, Competency
Derivative terms: Proficient

2. Noun. Skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity. "Practice greatly improves proficiency"
Exact synonyms: Technique
Generic synonyms: Skillfulness
Specialized synonyms: Brushwork, Musketry
Derivative terms: Proficient, Technical, Technician, Technician

Definition of Proficiency

1. Noun. Ability, skill, competence. ¹

2. Noun. Knowledge. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Proficiency

1. [n PROFICIENCIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proficiency

professory
professour
professours
proffer
proffered
profferer
profferers
profferest
proffereth
proffering
proffers
proffre
profibrinolytic
profibrotic
proficiencies
proficiency
proficient
proficiently
proficients
proficuous
profilaggrin
profile
profiled
profiler
profilers
profiles
profilin
profiling
profilings
profilins

Literary usage of Proficiency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The State Of Mathematics Achievement: Naep's 1990 Assessment Of The Nation by Ina V. S. Mullis (2004)
"AVERAGE Proficiency AND PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE MATHEMATICS CONTENT AREAS The remaining tables and figures in this chapter present the results for ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"The above ie the gist of the complaint, which further avers that, by reason of such refusal to issue him a certificate of proficiency upon such examination, ..."

3. Adult Literacy in America edited by Irwin S. Kisch (1994)
"Table 1.1 A Average Prose Proficiency and Literacy Levels by Total Population, Gender, Census Region, and Race/Ethnicity 113 Table LIB Average Document ..."

4. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"His great proficiency in law. AD 1500. Gives lectures in a church. More had been destined by his father to wear the long robe; ..."

5. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"His great proficiency in law. A. n. 1500. Gives lectures in a church. More had been destined by his father to wear the long robe; and, having completed his ..."

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