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Subject:Re: Performant - is it a word From:Bill Sullivan <bsullivan -at- POWERWARE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:47:28 -0400
OK, I will say yes. While performant does not appear to appear in our dictionaries, there is -ant, a suffix. And yes, in looking at the definition of -ant, I can see where your "performant" works as a word. I don't know how performant differs from performer or performing, but I guess it could.
