Optimizing is a term used to describe the process of carrying out activities that lead to maximized efficiency. There are several words that can be used as synonyms for optimizing including enhancing, improving, streamlining, perfecting, refining, and fine-tuning. Enhancing refers to improving the quality of a product, while improving generally relates to making something better than it was before. Streamlining refers to taking steps to make any process more efficient and effective, while perfecting could be viewed as the process of achieving an outcome with the highest level of precision or accuracy. Refining and fine-tuning both imply making small changes that can lead to significant improvements.