(in health care) an additional substance, treatment, or procedure used for increasing the efficacy or safety of the primary substance, treatment, or procedure or for facilitating its performance. adjunctive, adj.
power consumption Definition. The rate at which power is consumed by a device or unit (such as a building), usually expressed in kilowatt-hours, Btu/hour, or horsepower-hours.
In the case of electricity, this is defined as all the electricity produced including the auxiliary electricity consumption and losses in transformers at the power station. The methodology used to calculate the energy efficiency of electricity production is based on Graus et al, 2007 and Phylipsen et al, 1998.