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What does suboptimal mean?

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  1. Less than optimal.
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However, our results appeared sensitive to the prior model of cladogenesis, although the oldest estimates were obtained under a suboptimal model.
The increasing scarcity of more desirable hardwoods led people to make use of structurally suboptimal building materials.
Hypothesis 1 predicted that organizational performance across the sample would be higher in trade-off than in suboptimal equifinal situations.
By confining small fish to living in suboptimal foraging habitat, predation may have important sublethal effects on populations.
Much of the time, management of patients who become critically ill before admission to an ICU may be suboptimal.
The response of pernicious anaemia to folic acid is usually suboptimal and temporary and often followed by relapse.

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